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REYNOLDS  HISTORICAL 
GENEALOGY  COLLECTION 


GENEALOGY 
929.102 
F91JO 
W.10 


THE  JOURNAL 

OF  THE 

FRIENDS  HISTORICAL 
SOCIETY 

EDITED  BY 

NORMAN  PENNEY,  F.S.A.,  F.R.Hist.S 

VOLUME  X 
1913 


London 

HEAD  LEY  BROTHERS,  140,  Bisfcopsgate,  E.G. 
Philadelphia 

HERMAN    NEWMAN.    1010   ARCH  STREET 
New  York 

DAVID  S.  TABER,  144  BAST  :<olh  STREET 


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HEADLEY  BROTH  KRS, 
FRTXTERS, 

BISHOPSGATE,  EX. ;  AXP  ASHFORD,  KENT. 


TACE. 

I  Reminiscences  of  Some  Old  Edinburgh  Friends. 

William  Frederick  Miller  I,  45 

I  A  Visit  to  Indianapolis  in  1877.    Helen  B.  Harris     . .  12 
'  Margaret  Meakins  and  the  Plague  of  London. 

Joseph  J.  Green  15 

;  Quaker  Sermons  in  the  Pumproom  at  Bath  . .           . .  17,  104 

I  Documents  Relating  to  James  Nayler        . .          . .  18 

I  The  Cambridge  i!  Journal  of  George  Fox  "    . .  . .  25,  50,  262 

I  Presentations  in  Episcopal  Visitations,  1 662-1679. 

Prof.  G.  Lyon  Turner,  M.A.  27,  133 
I  Sayings  of  William  Penn  . .          . ,           . .  29,  65,  132, 145,  184 

I  Early  Friends  on  the  Eastern  Shore  of  Virginia          . .  30 

[  The  Work  of  Friends-  Reference  Library,  London  . .  32 

Friends  in  Current  Literature.    The  Editor  .  .       34,  105,  190,  292 
Notes  and  Queries           . .          . .          . .       41, 113, 196,  296 

A  Literary  Circle  in  Sheffield  in  181 6           . .           . .  51 

James  Montgomery  to  Sarah  Smith,  1813     . .           . .  54 

Edward  Pease  to  Sarah  Smith,  1827            . .           ...  55 

I  J.  J.  Gume}'  and  Elizabeth  Fry  to  Sarah  Smith,  1829  . .  56 

Meeting  Records — South  Wales  ;  Kingston  . .           . .  59 

An  Unauthorised  Philadelphia  "  Discipline  "            . .  60 
:    Notes  Relating   to   Elizabeth   Heath,   of  Mansfield, 

Foundress  of  Heath's  Charity.     Emily  Manners  61 
I    Letters  to  Daniel  Wheeler  in  England  from  his  Family  in 

Russia,  1832-3       . .           . .           . .           . .  64 

Dr.  Lettsom's  Rural  Fete  at  Grove  Hill,  Camberwell  . .  66 
;    A  Scheme  for  Expediting  the  Transport  of  the  Mails, 

attributed  to  Jonathan  Dymond       . .           . .  68 

"  Gospel  Order  and  Discipline  "  by  George  Keith     . .  70 

An  Anecdote  Relating  to  William  Harrison  of  Brighton  77,  276 

John  H.  Dillingham  at  a  Funeral    . .           . .           . .  78 

Extracts  from  the  Diar}'  of  Abiah  Darby      . .           . .  79.  295 

Women  Writers  among  Friends  of  the  Seventeenth 

Century  and  later               . .           . .           . .  93 

The  Paintings  of  Sir  Peter  Lely      . .           . .           . .  96 

Queen  Catherine  at  Devonshire   House,  1662            . .  97 

An  Early  Business  Journey  of  John  Hill  Lovell,  1822. .  98 

i     The  Quaker  Lady  and  the  Prize-fighter        . .           . .  103 

.     "  A  Submissive  Wife  "                  . .           . .           . .  104 

Obituary — Thomas  Hodgkin          . .           . .           . .  /  III 

I    The  Richardson  MSS.    Elsie  M.  Smith        . .           . .  112 

An  Account  of  Ministering  Friends  from  Europe  who 

visited  America,  1656  to  1793            .  .           . .  117 

Silence — and  Decline        . .           . .           . .          . .  137 

The  Conversion  of  Joseph  Phipps  .  .           . .           . .  138 

Humphrey  Bates  to  George  Fox,  1660         . .           . .  14° 

Bergson  on  Literary  Research        .*          ..  i-i1 


iv. 


CONTENTS. 


Martha  Fisher  to  Margaret  Fox,  1673 

George  Fox  and  Thomas  Lower  to  William  Perm,  1674. . 

George  Fox  to  William  Perm,  1675 

John  Matern,  Schoolmaster 

Richard  Shackleton  to  Abiah  Darby,  1784 

Record  of  Friends  Travelling  in  Ireland,  1656-1765    . . 

The  Teaching  of  Hannah  Barnard 

The  Annual  Meeting        . .  . .  . . 

Farewell  to  Kidsley  Park 
Lindley  Murray  Hoag  and  the  Ghost  at  Ury. . 
The  Enlargement  of  Devonshire  House  in  the  Eighteenth 
Century 

The  Man  of  Honour,  Occasion 'd  by  the  Postscript  of 
Pen's  Letter  " 
Corks  for  Sale,  1678 
Officers  for  the  Year  1913-1914 
Balance  Sheet  for  the  Year  1912 
Thomas  Bennet,  Schoolmaster,  of  Pickwick,  Wilts 
A  Stuart  among  the  Quakers,    Mabel  R.  Brailsford    . . 
Fatherly  Solicitude 

"  Going  out  for  a  Husband  and  Wife  " 

Friends  in  Nova  Scotia,  17S5 

Which  was  the  Greater  Hero  ? 

The  Story  of  Martha  and  Mary 

Harrison  of  Brighton  and  Poole.    Perceval  Lucas 

"  The  Life  of  John  lanson  " 

"  Nonconformity  under  the  Clarendon  Code  " 

The  Value  of  ;t  Team- wort " 

Conscientious  Shoemaking 

Jane  Watson,  of  Eden  deny,  Ireland,    Edith  Webb     . . 
A  Particular  Observation  of  Truth's  Progress 
"  Extracts  from  State  Papers."    Review  by 

Prof.  G.  Lyon  Turner,  M.A 

Editor's  Notes 

Joseph  Garratt  of  Cork 

Index 


"  Quakerism  Drooping  " 

Blind  Lane,  Mansfield 

Heath's  Hospital,  Mansfield 

Elizabeth  Heath's  Tombstone 

Genealogical  Chart-  Darby,  of  Coalbrookdale 

Letter  of  Thomas  B-unet  to  John  Baskervifle 

Genealogical  Chart-— Bennet,  of  Wilts 


Vol.  X,  No.  I  Fits*  Month  (January),  19J3 

THE  JOURNAL 

OF  THE 

FRIENDS'  HISTORICAL  SOCIETY 

For  Table  oi  Contents  see  page  two  of  cover 

(Bmmi&ctnm  of 

DI NBURGH  Meeting  seventy  years  ago  was  probably 
at  the  most  fl  ourishing  period  of  its  very  chequered 
existence.  In  1827,  when  David  Douli  brought  his 
bride  to  Edinburgh,  Friends  there  numbered  one 
hundred  and  ten,  and  fifteen  or  twenty  years  later  the 
numbers  were  in  all  probability  much  the  same.  The  old 
Friendly  families  of  Scottish  origin  were  represented  by 
Alexander  Cruickshank,  of  Meadowside  (1757-1842), 
and  by  his  household  ;  by  the  children  of  John  and  Ann 
(Jolly)  Mosgrave,  who  had  migrated  from  the  north 
nearly  half  a  century  before  ;  and  by  my  father,  William 
Miller  (1796-1882)*  the  only  one  of  seven  brothers  and 
sisters  who  remained  a  Friend,  he  being  the  fourth  of  the 
name  who  had  occupied  a  seat  in  the  Ministers'  gallery 
since  the  end  of  the  seventeenth  century,  lie  occasionally 
appeared  in  the  ministry,  though  he  was  not  u  recorded  " 
until  1854. 

John  Wigham,  Junior,  of  Salisbury  Road  (1781- 
1862),  and  his  cousin,  John  Wigham,  Tertius,  of  Grey 
Street  (1784-1864),  had  both  come  from  England— the 
former  as  a  child,  the  latter  as  a  young  man— had 
prospered  in  business  as  shawl  manufacturers.,  married, 
and,  with  their  families,  were  now  among  the  leading- 
Edinburgh  Friends.  They  also  occupied  seats  in  the 
gallery  beside  Alexander  Cruickshank,  who  sat  at  the 
head  of  the  meeting.    Jane  Wigham  (1S01-1888),  the 


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second  wife  of  John  Wigham,  Tertius,  was  also  a  gallery 
Friend.  She  was  a  sister  of  William  and  Robert  Srneal 
of  British  Friend  celebrity,  Sarah  Wigham  (i 803-1 872), 
the  second  wife  of  John  Wigham,  Junior,  was  a  Nicholson 
of    Whitehaven  ;    she  occupied  the  far  corner  of  the 

Overseers'  form,  immediately  below  the  gallery.  Ann  , 

the  first  wife  of  John  Wigham,  Junior,  had  been  a  con- 
vinced Friend,  and  a  considerable  heiress.  I  think  her 
father  made  his  fortune  in  India.  Her  elder  brother  much 
resented  her  joining  Friends  and  her  marriage,  and  left 
his  money  to  a  younger  brother ;  but  on  the  death  of  the 
latter  the  sister  inherited  both  fortunes,  and  John 
Wigham  was  able  to  retire  from  business  in  very  easy 
circumstances.  She  died  in  1823,  leaving  an  only 
daughter,  Jane,  afterwards  wife  of  Edward  Richardson, 
of  Newcastle.  The  first  wife  of  John  Wigham,  Tertius, 
who  died  in  1830,  was  also  a  convinced  Friend,  Jane 
Richardson  by  name ;  her  brother  was  a  Canon  of 
York  Cathedral.  She  was  the  mother  of  Henry,  Eliza 
and  John  Richardson  Wigham,  and  of  Mary  (Wigham) 
Edmundson. 

Another  gallery  Friend  was  Mary  Howison  (d.  1853, 
aged  78),  a  widow  with  several  children,  who  had  been 
left  comfortably  off  037  her  husband,  William  Howison, 
a  convinced  Friend,  also  in  the  shawl  business.  She 
herself  was  a  Dilworth  of  WTyresdale,  Lancashire,  sister 
of  Margaret  Gray  (d.  1848,  aged  66),  another  "  plain 
Friend,"  and.  kind  benefactress  of  our  childhood.  She 
must,  I  think,  have  been  re-instated  in  membership  after 
"  marrying  out."  Her  husband,  John  Gray,  was  certainly 
not  a  member,  though  he  was  a  diligent  at  tender  of 
meetings  until  late  in  life,  when  he  took  to  himself  a  second 
wife,  a  lady  of  the  name  of  Miller,  not  connected  with 
Friends.  He  had  one  child  of  his  old  age,  John  Miller 
Gray,  who  Was  for  several  years  the  very  capable  Curator 
of  the  Scottish  National  Portrait  Gallery,  until  his 
death  in  1894,  at  a  comparatively  early  age.  . 

Dear  Mary  Doull  (1797-186S),  who  sat  at  the  head 
of  the  meeting  on  the  women's  side,  was  for  many  years 
the  only  recorded  Minister.  She  was  of  an  old  Quaker 
stock,  a  Rimington  of  Penrith,  and,  together  with  her 
husband,  David  Doull  (1784-1858),  and  their  family, 


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filled  a  veiy  important  place  in  Edinburgh  Meeting,  as  well 
as  in  our  social  pleasures.  David  Doull  was  born  in  the 
far-off  wilds  of  Caithness,  which  in  his  youth  was  still  a 
Gaelic-speaking  portion  of  Scotland.  When  he  was  in  his 
sixteenth  year,  he,  together  with  the  sons  of  other  small 
landowners  in  the  North,  joined  a  local  regiment  of 
"  Fencibles,"  and  he  was  duly  enrolled  for  garrison  duty 
during  the  French  invasion  scare  in  1803.  Whilst  under 
convincement,  he  and  his  friend,  William  White  (afterwards 
of  Glasgow),  used  to  attend  Meeting  in  full  regimentals, 
no*  doubt  to  the  great  entertainment  of  the  younger  portion 
of  the  congregation.  David  Doull  strongly  held  the 
view  that  true  membership  in  the  Church  of  Christ  could 
only  be  given  by  its  Head,  and  he  did  not  feel  easy  himself 
to  apply  for  recognition  in  the  Society  ;  however,  the 
Overseers  of  Edinburgh  Two  Months  Meeting  brought 
his  name  before  Friends,  and  he  was  at  once  cordialty 
welcomed  as  a  fellow-member.  The  residence  of  David 
and  Mary  Doull  was,  for  many  years,  in  Drummond  Street, 
a  locality  of  considerable  interest  on  account  of  its  name, 
which  commemorated  the  well-known  provost,  George 
Drummond,  brother  of  May  Drummond,  and  also  because 
for  some  distance  along  one  side  of  the  street,  in  place  of 
houses,  the  old  city  ramparts,  dating  from  the  disastrous 
year  of  Flodden,  were  still  in  existence.  One  of  his 
places  of  business  was  a  venerable  old  building  in  the 
Potterrow,  which  had  been  General  Monk's  town  house 
when  he  was  Governor  of  Scotland  during  Crom well's 
usurpation.  David  Doull  was  a  strikingly  line  figure  in 
his  broad-brimmed  hat,  ample  collarless  coat,  knee 
breeches,  silk  stockings  and  drab  gaiters,  as  he  sat  on  the 
Overseers'  form  below  the  gallery,  leaning  on  his  staff, 
with  his  little  boys,  Alexander  and  Clement,  seated  on 
square  hassocks  on  either  side  of  him. 

William  Gibb  (d.  1846,  aged  70),  also  a  plain  Friend, 
I  think  shared  the  form  with  David  Doull.  John  Sinclair 
was  another  of  the  old  school,  but  he  had  been  unfortunate 
in  business  and  so  lost  his  membership,  though  he 
appeared  in  plain  coat  and  knee  breeches  to  the  last.  He 
was  killed  in  an  accident  on  the  North  British  Railway. 
A  less  conspicuous  member  of  the  congregation  was  little 
William  Gray  (d.  1865,  aged  76),  who,  with  his  good  wife, 


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Elizabeth  Gray  (1783-1872),  one  of  a  large  family  of 
Ivisons  of  Cumberland,  had  come  north,  from  London,  I 
think,  seeking  his  fortune.  He  was  for  many  years  David 
DdiilTs  right-Hated  man,  but  having  gained  a  moderate 
competence  he  retired  into  private  life,  and  added  to  his 
income  by  an  agency  for  coal.  The  good  Friends  lived 
alone,  occupying  a  small  flat  in  Roxburgh  Street,  near  the 
Meetliig  House.  Elizabeth  Gray  was  a  notable  housewife, 
keeping  her  little  suite  of  apartments  beautifully  clean 
and  neat,  and  proud  of  the  musk  and  other  flowers  which 
she  sue  cess  fully  cultivated,  and  which  sweetly  scented  the 
place.  Her  finger  was  of  course  guiltless  of  a  wedding 
ring,  but  she  wore  a  zinc  circlet  in  which  she  had  great 
faith  as  a  preventive  of  rheumatism.  She  and  her 
devoted  husband  were  model  old.  Friends.  His  voice 
used  to  be  heard  not  unfrequently  in  Meeting,  though 
he  seldom  got  beyond  the  repetition  of  a  text,  but  he 
had  a  weakness  for  getting  on  his  feet  several  times  in  the 
course  of  one  First-day  morning. 

All  of  Alexander  Cruickshank's  family  were,  in 
those  early  days,  members  of  the  Meeting,  except  Edward, 
the  eldest  son,  who,  to  the  great  grief  of  his  father,  had 
joined  the  Anabaptists.  The  next  son,  George,  had 
married  Louisa  Thomas,  of  Bristol,  and  was  a  dispenser 
of  hospitality  at  Blackford  House,  a  dull  old  building  at 
the  end  of  an  avenue  near  Blackford  Hill,  on  the  then 
remote  outskirts  of  Morningside.  Louisa  Cruickshank's 
mother,  Hannah  Thomas,  was  a  frequent  visitor,  and  her 
slow,  deliberate  voice,  with  its  constantly  recurring 
refrain  of  "  ah  !  "  after  each  word,  was  often  heard  in 
Meeting.  George  and  Louisa  Cruickshank  left  Friends  for 
one  of  the  divisions  of  "  the  Brethren,"  whilst  Alexander, 
the  youngest  brother,  and  his  bright  wife,  Martha  Ogden 
Gingeli,  joined  the  so-called  "  Free  Kirk,"  and  Rebecca 
Wilson  of  Hawick,  their  only  married  sister,  united  herself 
to  the  Morisonians.1  One  lovingly  remembers  their  elder 
sister,  Lucy  Cruickshank  (1810-1875),  the  warm-hearted 
friend  of  our  family  from  our  earliest  childhood.  Some  of 
my  very  first  recollections  arc  of  pots  of  lovely  Lilies-of-t he- 
valley  and  scarlet  Mimulus,  which  bad  come  from  the  green- 

1  So  named,  from  James  Mori  sou,  a  Presbyterian  minister,  who  was 
suspended  from  Lis  office  in  13.41,  on  account  of  his  anti-Calvinistic  views. 


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5 


house*  at  Meadowside  to  adorn  the  parlour  at  Hope  Park. 
For  many  years  we  had  a  key  to  the  garden  entrance 
to  the  Cruiekshanks'  house  adjoining  the  Meadows,  so 
that  callers  from  Hope  Park  might  be  spared  a  long  walk 
round  to  the  front  entrance  in  Lauriston.  The  garden 
itself  was  a  delightful  old-fashioned  place,  with  its  high 
walls,  picturesque  summer-house,  prolific  fruit  trees  and 
luxuriant  growth  of  evergreens.  Mention  of  it  recalls  a 
sonnet  on  a  pair  of  blackbirds  which  had  built  their  nest 
in  the  Meadowside  garden.  The  lines  are  by  Elizabeth 
Rirhlngton.  of  Penrith,  a  translation  from  the  Spanish  of 
D.  M.  Vila,  one  of  the  numerous  "  distressed  foreigners  " 
to  whom  the  Cruickshank  family  extended  a  helping  hand. 

A  beauteous  blackbird  hither  came, 
Pecking  the  juicy  leaves  and  flowers, 
And,  hopping  'mid  the  shady  bowers, 

Sang  to  his  mate  his  glowing  flame. 

The  clustering  ivy  in  the  nook 
Hung  o'er  the  nest,  she  laboured  there  ; 
He,  studious  in  her  toils  to  share, 

Cheered  with  soft  song  and  trusting  look. 

She  from  the  thicket  calls,  "  Imprudent  one  ! 
Hear'st  thou  not  steps  approaching  near  this  walk ; 
Where'er  man  comes  our  tender  hopes  must  fall  ; 

Why  in  his  garden  hast  thou  made  our  home  ?  " 
"  Fearful  one,"  he  replied  ;    "  why,  this  alarm  ? 
In  a  Friend's  garden  no  one  doeth  harm." 

Lucy  Cruickshank  devoted  the  best  years  of  her  life 
to  caring  for  and  nursing  her  deceased  sister  Susan's 
fiance,  Alfred  Blakey  by  name,  a  talented  young  Friend 
who  had  come  to  Edinburgh  as  a  student  ;  he  was  said  to 
have  been  Sir  William  Hamilton's  favourite  pupil.  Alfred 
Blakey  fell  into  a  decline  after  Susanna  Cruickshank's 
death  in  1843,  but  lingered  on  for  many  years  a  prisoner 
to  his  room,  and  the  object  of  Lucy  Cruickshank's  un- 
remitting care.  She  was  the  only  one  of  her  family  who 
rejoined  Friends.  Alfred  Blakey  was  interred  in  a  vault 
in  Warriston  Cemetery,  where  Susan  Cruickshank  had 
been  laid.  Her  niche  was  closed  with  a  white  marble  slab 
on  which  were  inscribed  Wordsworth's  lines,  beginning  : — 

Thou  takest  not  away,  Oh,  Death! 
Tnou  striken* — absence  perisheth. 


6  OLD  EDINBURGH  FRIENDS 

A  friend  who  was  present  at.  Alfred  Blakey's  funeral 
describes  the  long,  dreary  ride  across  Edinburgh,  the 
lengthy  procession  of  ??  cm-mourning  coaches  through  the 
busv  streets,  much  stared  at  by  the  passers-by,  so  that 
in  one  at  least  of  the  carriages,  those  inside  were  glad  to 
pull  down  the  red  blinds  so  as  to  shut  out  the  too  curious 
gaze  of  the  populace.  "  The  vaults  were  fearfully  dark, 
and  we  felt  thankful  to  come  out  into  the  daylight.  [My 
brother,  who  was  with  me,  exclaimed]  '  Oh,  for  a  grave 
the  sun  shines  on  !  '  " 

John  and  Sarah  Wigham  had  four  children.  The 
elder  son  "  married  out,"  and  settled  in  Jamaica,  where 
I  believe  he  died,  leaving  an  only  daughter.  The  second 
son  was  an  invalid,  and  had  an  attendant,  called'his  tutor, 
always  with  him.  One  daughter,  a  girl  of  much  promise, 
died  in  early  life2,  and  the  younger,  Anna  Mar}7,  married 
Her  cousin,  Theodore  Nicholson,  of  Carlisle  ;  she  too  is 
now  dead,  but  has  left  children.  Of  the  family  of  John 
Wigham,  Tertius,  two,  Henry  and  Eliza,  were  for  many 
years  valued  members  of  Edinburgh  Meeting,  though 
eventually  they  both  joined  their  relations  in  Ireland. 
The  elder  sister,  Mary,  had  married  Joshua  Edmundson, 
and  settled  in  Dublin  in  1840  ;  and  the  younger  brother, 
John  Richardson  (whose  carpenter's  shop  in  the  garden 
at  Gray  Street,  with  its  lathe  and  multitudinous  tools, 
used  to  be  viewed  with  much  awe  by  my  childish  eyes) 
followed  his  sister  to  the  Emerald  Isle,  and  became  a 
distinguished  engineer,  a  great  authority  specially  on  the 
illumination  of  lighthouses,  but  <f  a  most  modest  man  :  he 
twice  refused  a  knighthood/' 

Mary  Howison  bad  several  children  :  two  unmarried 
daughters — one  I  think  afterwards  married  a  Poison  of 
Du'nL'u — besides  her  widowed  daughter  Johnston.  Like 
other  young  Friends  of  the  period  they  wore  Friends' 
boii nets,  though  of  a  somewhat  less  staid  type  than  the 
prolonged  straight  tunnels  of  their  elders.  Sons  there 
v-vrc  also.  The  eldest  was  for  some  time  Clerk  to  the 
Pu-p.-.-rative  Meeting,  but  both  he  and  another  brother 
hii  Friends.  The  third  son,  David,  who  married  a  very 
C&pabie  English  wife,  a  Harrison  of  Kendal,  died  at  a 

!  Sarah  lUizaboth  Wigham  (IS 34-18 54).  Her  parents  issued  a 
>,u'  Wjf  printed  Memorial  of  S.  E.  \V.  in  1855.     A  copy  of  this  is  in  D. 


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comparatively  earl y  age  after  a  long  period  of  helpless  in- 
firmity. His  widow  afterwards  married  Michael  Graham  of 
Preston,  and  became  the  mother  of  John  William  Graham, 
Principal  of  Dalton  Hall.  Other  plain  Friends  on  the 
women's  side  were  Sarah  Wigham's  sister,  Eliza  Nicholson, 
afterwards  wife  of  John  Barlow,  and  Sarah  Johnston, 
also  resident  at  Salisbury  Road,  a  bright  energetic  woman, 
who  would  now  be  called  a  "  mother's  help."  There 
were  two  unmarried  sisters  Mosgraye.  They  retained 
for  many  years  the  market  garden  which  had  been  their 
father's,  at  Powburn,  beyond  Causewayside  ;  but.  to  their 
great  indignation,  they  were  eventually  turned  out  by  a 
Radical  M.P.,  who  bought  the  property  for  building 
purposes,  and  it  is  now  covered  with  streets  and  crescents 
of  middle-class  houses.  Other  Friends  who  occupied 
seats  in  the  bod}*  of  the  meeting  were  the  widowed 
Margaret  Bryson  (d.  1862,  aged  62),  and  her  daughter, 
Agnes.  The  latter  afterwards  settled  in  Glasgow,  and 
with  her  friend,  Mary  White,  became  a  devoted  worker 
among  the  poor  and  suffering  in  that  city,  specially  in 
connection  with  the  "  Prison  Gate  Mission." 

•  Margaret  Constable  (d.  1855,  aged  74),  who  had 
been  my  father's  nurse,  and  was  the  widow  of  John 
Constable,  one  of  the  old  hand-loom  weavers,  was  still 
living,  but  I  do  not  seem  to  remember  her  at  Meeting  ; 
probably  she  was  too  feeble  to  come  out.  There  were, 
however,  other  members  of  the  family,  notably  her 
daughter  Reddie,  who  were  regular  attenders.  Another 
daughter  was  the  wife  of  Robert  Bell,  a  line  engraver 
of  portraits  and  figure  subjects,  of  some  note.  He  was 
not  a  member,  but  together  with  one  or  more  of  his  bo3rs, 
he  occupied  a  form  in  the  body  of  the  meeting,  First-day 
after  First-day,  with  great  regularity.  Some  of  his  large 
family  afterwards  joined  Friends. 

Another  conspicuous  figure  at  Meeting  was  Andrew 
Richardson,  a  painter  of  pictures,  who  lived  with  his  old 
mother,  Christian  Richardson  (d.  1853,  aged  88). 
I  think  he  must  have  lost  his  membership  through 
marrying  out,  or  possibly  he  never  was  a  Friend.  At  any 
rate,  Andrew  and  his  old  mother  lived  together.  I  can 
still  recall  trie  peculiar  odour  of  oil  paint  which,  pervaded 
the  flat  where  they  dwelt.    The  father,  John  Richardson, 


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had  been  in  the  shawl  trade,  and,  like  his  wife,  was  a 
convinced  Friend.  She  was  partly  paralysed,  and  was 
quite  confined  to  the  house.  She  spoke  the  very  broadest 
Scots,  and  took  large  quantities  of  snuff. 

Few  of  our  Edinburgh  Friends  at  this  period  indulged 
in  tobacco.  I  can  remember  only  two  who  continued  to 
smoke  the  long  "  churchwardens  "  which  an  earlier  genera- 
tion had  so  generally  patronised  ;  my  grandmother  Miller, 
who  died  in  1842,  aged  82,  was  one,  John  Wigham,  Tertius, 
the  other.  John  Wigham,  however,  some  years  before 
Bis  (feafh,  gave  up  the  practice  under  the  feeling  of  strong 
religious  duty. 

We  must  not  forget  Helenus  Gibbs  (d.  1876,  aged 
75),  the  worthy  shoemaker,  a  convinced  Friend,  from  near 
Dundee.  He  was  a  widower  with  one  daughter,  Sarah, 
not  a  member,  though  I  think  an  attender  of  meetings. 
In  subsequent  years,  as  the  old  standards  failed,  he  became 
one  of  the  pillars  of  the  Meeting. 

There  were  always  one  or  more  Friends  students 
from  the  south  or  from  Ireland,  many  of  them  valuable 
additions  to  the  Friendly  circle.  In  those  earl y  days  I 
specially  remember  Dr.  Martin  Barry  and  Dr.  Bevil 
Peacock,  afterwards  of  Finsbury  Square,  London.  The 
latter,  whilst  accompanying  my  father  on  some  of  his 
First-day  evening  walks,  first  interested  me  in  our  common 
wayside  wM-floWers,  To  a  later  date  belongs  the  name 
of  Joseph  Lister,  in  after  years  the  celebrated  Lord 
Lister,  who  has  just  passed  away  full  of  years  and  honours. 
He  however  came  less  and  less  amongst  Friends  as  his 
student  days  went  by,  and  he  eventually  "  married  out," 
his  bride  being  a  daughter  of  James  Syme,  the  great 
Professor  of  Clinical  Surgery  in  Edinburgh  University, 
with  whom  Lister  had  been  much  associated. 

Dr.  Barry,  when  I  first  remember  him,  had  advanced 
beyond  the  student  stage.  He  was  a  brilliant  scientist, 
was  the  first  Briton  to  ascend  Mont  Blanc  (lie  published 
an  account  of  the  ascent  in  18343),  and  was  a  member  of 
many  learned  societies.  I  remember  accompanying  him 
in  his  search  after  microscopic  specimens  in  the  ditch  at 
the  foot  of  "  Neighbour  "  Lothian's  held— a  half  stagnant, 
abomination,  very  appropriately  known  as  "  the  stank  "  ; 

3  A  copy  is  in  D. 


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it  was  the  last  remnant  of  a  ditch  which  in  old  times 
extended  all  round  the  Meadows. 

A  small  collection  of  rare  plants  from  the  Scottish 
Highlands,  which  Dr.  Barry  had  himself  gathered,  pressed, 
neatly  mounted  and  presented  to  our  mother,  was  long- 
treasured  at  Hope  Park,  until  the  plant  beetles  made  an 
end  of  it.  There  was  also  a  curious  model  in  flexible  wire, 
made  to  illustrate  a  discoveiy  of  the  Doctor's  as  to  the 
way  in  which  our  muscles  act.  Dr.  Barry  had  been  much 
in  Germatry,  and  was  an  enthusiast  as  regards  the 
language,  which  he  had  mastered  so  thoroughly  that  he 
declared  he  thought  in  German.  He  was,  I  believe,  of 
Irish  birth,  a  strong  loyalist  and  "  anti-repealer  " — those 
were  the  da}rs  of  Dan  O'Connell.  I  remember  Dr.  Barry 
quoting  with  gusto  the  charade,  "  Pat  is  my  first,  he 
makes  my  second,  then  calls  himself  my  whole  "  (patriot). 
There  was  also  a  riddle  by  Macaulay,  I  fancy,  with  which 
he  puzzled  us,  on  the  word  cod  : — 

Cut  off.  my  head,  and  singular  I  act, 

Cut  off  ray  tail,  and  plural  I  appear, 
Cut  off  both  head  and  tail,  and — wondrous  fact ! — 

Although  my  middle's  left,  there's  nothing  there. 

What  is  my  head  cut  oft  ?    A  sounding  sea  ; 

What  is  ray  tail  cut  ofr  ?    A  flowing  river, 
Amid  whose  sparkling  waves  I  sportive  play, 

Parent  of  sweetest  sounds,  yet  mute  for  ever. 

Dr.  Barry's  health  failed  completely  through  over- 
work. He  also  had  a  great  disappointment  in  love,  though 
I  hardly  think  we  can  blame  the  lad}?.    His  talents  had 

fascinated  one  of  the  G  family,  but  when  he  remarked 

to  her  one  day,  "  Yes,  Sarah,  I  could  give  even  thee  up 
for  Science/'  she  told  him  with  much  spirit  he  had  better 
do  so.  She  lived  to  make  a  very  happy  rnairiage  some 
years  later.  A  stay  for  some  time  at  a  German  hydro- 
pathic establishment  made  Dr.  Barry  a  confirmed 
invalid.  I  remember  his  appearance,  that  of  a  feeble, 
bent  old  man,  as  he  came  up  the  path  to  Meeting,  leaning 
on  the.  arm  of  John  Wigham,  Junior, when  he  returned  from 
his  fatal  course  of  icy  water  douches,  wet  sheets,  and  endless 
glasses  of  cold  water.  "  Does  thou  wonder  what  old  Friend 
this  can  be  ?  William  Allen  perhaps  ?  "  was  his  greeting 
to  me,  seeing,  I  suppose,  my  pained  and  astonished  face. 


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He  finally  retired  to  Beccles  in  Suffolk,  where  he  died, 
1855,  aged  53- 

I  am  not  quite  sure  when  John  Barlow  (d.  1856, 
aged  40)  appeared  on  the  scene.  He  came  from  Cheshire 
as  a  student,  and  became  professor  in  the  Veterinary 
College  in  Clyde  Street  :  "a  talented  man  and  rather  a 
pioneer  in  microscopic  work,"  a  friend  remarks.  When 
he  was  a  student,  the  bitter  controversy  between  the 
followers  of  Hahnemann  and  the  "  orthodox  "  school  of 
medicine  was  in  full  swing.  As  the  result  of  many 
experiments  on  the  animal  world  which  John  Barlow 
made,  he  ranged  himself  on  the  (i  orthodox  "  side  ;  whether 
he  ever  changed  his  views,  I  know  not. 

Knee  breeches  were  by  this  time  the  exception 
amongst  Friends,  but  the  coilarless  coat  was  still  a 
sme  qua  non  for  old  and  young  alike.  I  remember  John 
Barlow  appearing  in  an  ordinan-  fancy  coloured  over- 
coat, (t  Coderingtons,"  I  think  they  were  called,  and 
when  he  was  taken  to  task  by  one  of  the  Overseers,  he 
defended  the  garment  by  pointing  out  how  convenient  it 
was  in  cold  or  wet  weather  to  be  able  to  turn  the  collar 
up.  Whilst  on  the  subject  of  dress,  I  may  recall  the  fact 
that  mourning  garments  were  considered  to  be  most 
un-Friendly.  I  remember  the  half-astonished,  half- 
grieved  comments  made  on  the  dress  of  a  woman  Friend, 
as  she  appeared  at  her  husband's  funeral  in  1S56,  though 
I  fancy  it  was  omly  ordinary  black  silk,  and  a  Friends' 
black  bonnet  and  veil  which  she  wore. 

Even  in  those  days  there  were  Friend  women 
students  at  the  Ladies'  College  in  Moray  Place,  one  of  the 
earliest  institutions  established  for  the  higher  education 
of  women. 

As  has  always  been  the  case,  a  certain  number  of 
queer  waifs  and  strays  used  to  attend  Meeting  for  longer 
or  shorter  periods,  but  I  don't  remember  that  Friends 
were  at  this  time  much  troubled  by  those  not  in  member- 
ship taking  upon  them  to  hold  forth,  as  was  the  unpleasant 
experience  of  Friends  at  Edinburgh  a  generation  later. 
One  very  regular  attender  was  an  old  gentleman,  a 
tobacconist  of  Leith,  who  occupied  the  corner  seat  of 
the  front  form  facing  the  gallery.  He  had  been  a 
"  Separatist,"  and  apparently  appreciated  the  quietude 


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of  a  Friends'  Meeting,  as  the  walk  from  Leith  to  the 
Pleasants  and  back  must  have  been  a  fatiguing  one  for  a 
stout  old  man  such  as  he  was.  As  he  sat  meditating,  lie 
was  wont  to  wave  his  arms  about,  and  utter  inarticulate 
sounds  which  much  interfered  with  the  gravity  of  some  of 
us  younger  ones.  Good  Harry  Armour  (d.  1867,  aged  77) 
was  well  known  to  Friends  as  a  fellow  worker  in  anti- 
slavery,  temperance  and  other  good  causes,  but  I  think 
he  had  not  then  become  an  attender  of  Meetings.  He  was 
certainty  not  then  a  member. 

Most  of  the  Friends  belonging  to  Edinburgh  Meeting 
were  strong  Liberals  in  politics,  besides  interesting 
themselves  warmly  in  escaped  slaves  and  wronged  native 
Indians  from  "  the  land  of  the  free  "  across  the  Atlantic, 
and  Spanish  and  Italian  refugees,  German  democrats, 
and  oppressed  Polish  nationalists  nearer  home.  John 
Wigham,  Junior,  had  been  a  strong  supporter  of 
Macaulay,  one  of  the  members  for  Edinburgh,  but  after 
that  voluminous  Whig  writer's  attack  on  Friends  in 
general,  and  William  Penn  in  particular,  John  Wigham 
became  his  strong  opponent,  and  worked  steadily 
and  successfully  on  behalf  of  the  Radical  candidate. 
J.  Wigham  Richardson,  in  his  Memoir  of  his  sister,  Anna 
Deborah/  tells  of  the  disgust  of  the  latter,  when  she  found 
her  grandfather  "  burning  some  letters,  and  exclaiming 
with  great  satisfaction,  '  Now!  I've  got  rid  of  the  letters 
of  that  rascal,  Macaulay  !  '  " 

William  F.  Miller 
To  be  concluded 


james  Nayler,  speaking  of  the  Light  within  as  shewing  what  no  out- 
v  ard  declaration  of  man  can  shew,  describes  its  effects  thus : — 

"  It  will  let  you  see  all  your  sins  done  in  secret,  and  whom  you  have 
wronged,  and  hew  you  have  spent  your  time,  and  will  bring  you  to  repent- 
ance and  to  tenderness  of  heart  towards  all  people,  and  will  bring  you  to 
exercise  a.  pure  conscience  in  the  fear  of  God,  towards  God  and  man  in 
uprightness,  and  so  will  lead  up  to  Justification  and  Peace." 
The  Power  and  Glory  of  the  Lord  Shining  out  of  the  North,  1653,  p. 

4  Memoir  of  Anna  Deborah  Ilichardsor,  with  Extracts  from  her  /.titers, 
privately  printed  in  1877,  page  29.    A  copy  of  this  in  D. 


oR  Q}imi  to  JnUanapotfe  in  1877 


.  .  .  The  Friends  here  are  greatly  interested  and 
much  engaged  in  philanthropic  work',  and  all  the  public 
Institutions  of  the  Town  have  Friends  at  their  head. 
Sarah  Smith,1  an  English  Friend,  is  at  the  head  of  a 
wonderful  Institution  here  for  Female  Convicts,  and  also 
a  Home  for  Friendless  (or  Fallen)  Women.  She  had  often 
visited  prisons  with  Elizabeth  Comstock2  and  others, 
and  represented  to  Congress  the  great  need  of  the  women 
prisoners  being  under  different  management  from  that  in 
which  she  found  them,  and  finally  the  Government- 
provided  this  house  at  a  cost  of  $100,000  (£20,000),  and  at 
an  expense  annually  of  about  $25,000.  S.  S.  has  about  200 
in  all,  52  of  these  are  convicts,  and  her  system  of  dealing 
with  them  is  wonderfully  beautiful.  It  is  all  love  and 
religion.  She  aims  at  their  individual  conversion,  and 
succeeds  marvellously,  the  women  loving  her  as  a  mother, 
and  the  younger  ones  calling  her  "  Auntie/'  Of  those  in 
for  reformation,  out  of  eighty  who  have  gone  out  only  five 
have  at  all  backslidden ;  the  rest  are  filling  useful  positions 
in  society.  She  does  not  keep  the  doors  locked  in  the 
day  time,  and  lets  them  go  out  into  the  grounds.  She 
lets  them  wear  their  hair  long,  and  does  not  dress  them 
in  uniform,  not  even  the  prisoners,  and  the  consequence 
is  that  they  take  great  pleasure  in  looking  nice  and  neat  ; 
they  were  even  beautifully  neat,  many  of  them,  when  we 
saw  them  yesterday.  At  every  meal  they  each  say  a 
text,  that  is  three  times  a  day,  and  we  heard  them  at  tea 
— so  nicely  selected  and  so  reverently  said. 

The  convicts  and  the  girls  for  reformation  are  kept 
apart,  but  there  are  no  other  restrictions.  They  have 
each  a  little  dormitory — so  pretty — with  flowers  cultivated 

1  Sarah  J.  Smith  was  born  in  England,  and  married  James  Smith, 
of  Sheffield.  Husband  and  wife  emigrated  to  America  and  settled  in 
Wayne  County,  Ind.  The  work  of  Elizabeth  Fry  in  England  bad 
much  impressed  her,  and  she  became  deeply  interested  in  philanthropic 
work  in  hoi  new  home.  She  died  at  the  home  of  her  daughter,  Mrs.  William 
J.  Hiatt,  at  Dublin,  Ind.,  in  December,  18S5.  See  h'hoda  AT.  'tbjfin,  roio  ; 
Journal  F.H.S.,  vol.  viii.  j  Elizabeth  L.  Comstock.  1895,  P-  36*,  etc. 

2  Elizabeth  L.  Comstock  (1815-1891),  nle  Hons,  of  England.  Sec 
her  life,  by  Caroline  Hare,  1895. 

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b}'  themselves  in  each  window.  They  earn  a  good  deal  of 
money  by  laundrj'  work,  etc.  They  have  morning  and 
evening  family  worship,  and  Meeting  on  First-day,  and 
twice  a.  week  prayer  meetings  among  themselves. 

Sarah  Smith  gave  us  many  wonderful  accounts  of 
conversions.  She  says  sometimes  she  literally  "  compels 
them  to  come  in."  One  was  this  way  : — A  desperate 
character  was  getting  tobacco  surreptitiously  from  some 
workmen,  and  S.  Smith  knew  it.  One  day  she  said  to  the 
woman,  "  Thee  are  very  unhappy  ;  what  is  the  matter  ?  " 
■—"Nothing'"  (iri  a  loud  angry  voice). — "  Yes,  there  is 
something,  and  I  will  tell  thee  what  it  is — tobacco." — 
"  Tobacco  !  Who  told  you  that  ?  Oh  !  Every  chew- 
sends  me  nearer  to  hell  !  " — "  Well,  thee  must  give  it 
up."—"  I  can't  !  "— "  Thee  must/'—"  I  won't.  I  am 
going  to  hell."  The  convicts'  prayer  meeting  was  going 
on,  so  S.  S.  told  her  to  come  with  her,  and  took  her  in. 
All  the  women  were  on  their  knees ;  S.  S.  told  them  about 
her  and  asked  their  prayers.  And  then  she  bid  the  poor 
trembling  sinner  kneel  down. — "  I  can't." — So  S.  S.  took 
her  by  the  shoulders  and  pressed  her  down,  and  held  her 
down,  and  prayed  for  her.  Then  she  told  her  to  pray  for 
herself  "  God  be  merciful  to  rne  a  sinner."  S.  S.  says  she 
repeated  this  with  a  pause  between,  at  least  twenty  times, 
and  told  the  woman  she  should  not  rise  till  she  had  said 
it  !  At  last  she  began,  "  God  be  .  .  ."  no  more — 
a  great  cry  followed,  loud  and  piercing,  and  the  poor 
prodigal  was  rejoicing  in  the  forgiving  love  of  her 
reconciled  Father  in  Heaven.  "  Oh  I  Why  did  I  not  come 
before  ?  Why  was  my  heart  as  cold  and  as  hard  as  iron  ? 
And  God  was  only  waiting  for  me  to  ask  Him  to  forgive  me  !  " 

S.  S.  says  she  never  so  forced  a  person  into  the 
Kingdom  before,  but  she  saw  clearly  she  had.  to  do  it  with 
this  woman.  That  was  four  years  ago,  and  ever  since  she 
.  has  gone  on  rejoicing  ;  not  for  one  day  has  she  looked 
back,  and  her  example  of  faith  and  joy  in  believing  is 
wonderful.  I  think  she  is  in  for  life,  but  am  not  quite 
sure.  It  was  strange  that  the  disobedience  to  prison  law 
in  chewing  tobacco  should  have  lain  so  heavily  on  so 
hardened  a  sinner's  conscience. 

After  I  and  others  had  spoken  to  them  collectively 
yesterday   afternoon    (between    morning   and  evening 


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meetings),  S.  S.  took  me  to  shake  hands  with  the  convicts. 
I  had  said  something  in  my  address  to  the  effect  that 
Christ  was  just  as  ready  to  forgive  a  rmirderer  as  a  more 
respectable  sinner,  and  that  it  needed  the  blood  of  the 
atonement  to  blot  out  my  sins  of  selfishness  and  pride, 
etc.,  as  much  as  those  of  others  which  were  against  the  laws 
of  the  land.  The  women  were  so  loving,  and  in  the  first 
row  1  shook  hands  with  were  four  murderesses  !  There 
are  seven  herein  all.  One  said,  with  a  beautiful  smile  on 
her  intelligent  face,  ■*  This  is  the  right  hand  of  fellowship," 
arid  T  felt  it  too.  These  murderesses  (two  of  whom 
murdered  their  husbands,  and  one  a  whole  family)  are  all 
earliest  and  consistent  Christians,  and  helpful  among  the 
rest.    Being  forgiven  much  they  love  much. 

How  infinitely  better  this  plan  of  life-confinement 
in  such  a  home  than  hanging  them  !  I  never  thought 
when  I  spoke  that  way  that  there  would  be  one  in  the 
room  convicted  for  murder,  but  only  spoke  of  it  as  the 
greatest  outward  sin  ;  but  my  having  done  so  drew  us 
closer  together,  and  I  felt,  as  I  spoke  to  them  and  held  their 
hands  one  after  the  other,  the  glorious  reality  of  the  truth 
that  "  The  blood  of  Jesus  Christ  cleanseth  from  all  sin," 
and  that  in  Him  all  are  one,  and  I  not  one  particle  nearer 
Him  or  more  loved  than  they.  It  did  me  a  deal  of  good, 
this  actual  contact  with  forgiven  murderers— may  I  never 
forget  the  lesson  !    .    .  . 

Helen  B.  Harris 


On  Monday  Morning  last  about  four  o'Clock,  the  noted  Tavern, 
commonly  calFd  the  Quakers  Tavern,  in  the  Little  Sanctuary,  West- 
minster, was  broke  open  and  robb'd  by  three  Persons    .    .  . 

.    Newscutting  in  D.,  dated  1736. 

A  few  Days  since,  as  the  Workmen  were  pulling  down  the  Quakers 
Tavern  in  Thieving-Lane,  W  estminster,  they  found  several  Pieces  of 
old  Roman  Coin  in  the  Ruins. 

Newscutting  in  D.,  dated  1751. 

Saturday  died  Mr.  John  Atkinson,1  one  of  the  people  called  Quakers, 
who  many  years  kept  the  White  Lion  tavern,  the  upper-end  of  Cornhill. 

Newscirttiag  in  D.,  dated  1759. 

1  The  London  Registers  record  the  death  of  John  Atkinso»j  of  the 
parish  of  Si.  Peters,  Cornhill,  on  the  30th  ol  i2mo.,  175s,  aged  fifty- 
five  years. 


of  Bonbon 


>«f  MONGST  the  family  MSS.  of  George  Brightwen, 
mm  .   of  Trimley,  near  Ipswich,  is  the  following  sjis&mo- 
randum  by  his  late  aunt,  Mary  Sims  Brightwen, 
of  Ipswich,  who  died  in  1882,  aged  seventy-seven: 

"  Concerning  the  enclosed  Nutmeg-grater,  which 
came  into  her  possession  through  her  mother,  Mary 
[Isaac]  Brightwen,  of  Coggeshall,  Essex,  as  far  back  as 
I  can  remember,  this  silver  nutmeg-grater  was  kept  in 
constant  use  and  kept  with  the  spoons  and  ladies  in  our 
sideboard  drawer  ;  white-wine  negus  being  at  that  time 
of  day  in  much  more  frequent  use  than  now  (happily). 

"  I  have  often  heard  my  mother  say  that  it  belonged 
to  one  of  her  great-aunts,1  named  Margaret  Meekings, 
who  was  aunt2  to  her  father,  John  Sims  [of  Norwich,  etc.], 
and  aunt  [great-grandmother]  to  his  sister,  Mary  Smithy 
who  at  the  decease  of  John  Sims's  wife,4  took  his  eldest 
daughter,  then  twelve  years  of  age,  to  live  with  her,  and 
through  whom  my  mother  received  this  relic. 

"  She  told  us  that  Margaret  Meekins  was  a  good  and 
pious  woman,  and  lived  in  London  during  the  time  of  the 
Plague,  when  everybody  who  was  of  ability  fled  from  the 
city  into  the  county. 

"  This  Margaret  Meekins  thought  to  be  wrong  ;  'For,' 
said  she,  '  if  all  the  healthy  leave,  what  will  become  of  the 
sick  and  dying  ?  '     So  she  went  in  and  out  amongst  them 
and  had  large  quantities  of  gruel  and  messes  made  for  them, 
and,  doing  all  the  good  she  could,  took  not  the  disease. 

"  Is  it  too  much  to  suppose  that  she  used  this  Very 
nutmeg-grater  when  seasoning  the  gruel' she  so  liberally 
distributed  ? 

H  In  parting  with,  a  lot  of  old  silver  my  mother  included 
the  original  silver  grater,  as  it  was  worn  smooth,  and  no 

1  In  reality,  her  great-great-grandm  other. 
7  Great-grandmother. 

3  Second  wife  of  Thomas  Smith,  of  Lombard  Street,  banker. 
*  Ann  Thresher. 

15 


16   MARGARET  MEAKINS  AND  THE  PLAGUE 


longer  answered  its  purpose,  and  had  a  tin  one  made  in 
its  place  ;  I  remember  her  doing  so  well,  but  she  after- 
wards regretted  it,  as  it  had  Margaret  Meekins's  initials 
upon  it,  as  also  the  date  showing  it  to  have  been  hers  at 
the  time  of  the  Great  Plague  of  London,  and  consequently 
before  the  Great  Fire,  and  the  Monument  erected  to 
its  memory/' 

Thus  far  M.  S.  Brightwen,  but  it  is  not  clear  exactly 
as  to  whether  the  old  nutmeg-grater  was  recovered 
eventually  or  no. 

Margaret  Meakins  was  a  leading  London  Friend,  was 
born  circa  1622,  and  died  of  age  in  Cripplegate,  17  June, 
1692,  aged  seventy.  Her  husband,  John  Meakins,  born 
also  circa  1622,  was  a  dyer  at  Cripplegate,  and  died  there 
23  September,  1694,  aged  seventy-two.  They  had  a 
family  of  one  son,  John,  who  died  in  1665,  aged  four,  and 
three  daughters,  viz.,  Mary,  who  married  in  1678,  James 
Strutt,  of  Wapping ;  Martha,  who  married  in  1678, 
William  Dry ;  and  Elizabeth,  who  married  in  1680, 
Benjamin  Ollive.  From  the  last  marriage  descend  the 
well-known  Quaker  families  of  Sims,  Talwin,  Corder,  Hagen, 
Brightwen,  Binyon,  Perry,  Poult er,  Green,  and  others. 

The  will  of  John  Meakins,  dated  1694,  names  his 
son-in-law,  Edward  Cooper,  and  grandson,  John  Cooper, 
whom  he  makes  executors.  His  son-in-law,  Benjamin 
Ollive,  continued  his  dye-works ;  and  the  famous  calico- 
printing  and  dyeing  works  at  Bromley  Hall,  Middlesex, 
carried  on  by  the  Ollives,  Talwins  and  Fosters,  were  the 
outcome  of  John  Meakins's  business. 

Margaret  Meakins,  who  was  a  member  of  the  Six 
Weeks  Meeting  in  1671,  is  one  of  the  twenty  signatories 
to  A  Tender  and  Christian  Testimony  to  Young  People, 
etc.,  a  quarto  pamphlet  of  eight  pages,  dated  1685  :  "  From 
our  Womcns  Meeting  at  the  Bull  and  Mouth."  Amongst 
other  signatories  are  Ann  Whitehead,  Lucretia  Cook, 
Mariabella  Farrnborough,  Ruth  Crouch,  etc. 

This,  was  also  printed  the  same  ydat  as  a  broadside  of 
il  pages.* 

Margaret  Meakins,  together  with  many  other  Friends, 
also  wrote  a  testimony  (of  two  pages)  concerning  Ann 
Whitehead  (wife  of  George  Whitehead)  in  1686. 

s  Both  editions  are  in  D.  [Ed.] 


SERMONS  IN  A  PUMPROOM 


17 


This  narrative  relating  to  the  Plague  is  interesting'. 
It  was  notorious  that  the  Anglican  clergy  generally  fled 
from  London  with  the  rest,  while  many  of  the  long- 
suffering  ejected  ministers  remained  in  town  to  assist  the 
stricken  and  distracted  people  with  their  ministrations. 
Other  instances  are  recorded  of  those  who  survived  the 
Plague,  in  spite  of  their  care  of  the  sick  and  d3<Ting,  trusting 
in  God  for  their  deliverance,  as  was  the  case,  no  doubt, 
with  Margaret  Meakins. 

As  a  striking  contrast  to  the  action  of  the  London 
clergy,  is  that  of  the  rector  of  Eyam,  in  Derbyshire,  the 
Rev.  William  Mempesson,  who  to  his  eternal  honour, 
together  with  the  ejected  rector,  Thomas  Stanley,  laboured 
in  that  plague-stricken  village  of  1666,  under  the  most 
tragic  circumstances  one  can  imagine.  The  narrative  of 
their  heroic  labours  is  one  of  the  most  interesting  upon 
record,  and  we  may  rest  assured  will  never  be  forgotten. 

Joseph  J.  Green  " 


£)uafier  ^evmone  in  tU  pnmpvoom  at  (§at§ 


"  Remarkable  Occurrence. — Yesterday,  between  two  and  three 
o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  when  the  Pump-room,  was  full  of  fashionables, 
a  Mr.  Fox,  attended  by  several  other  Quakers,  addressed  the  company 
for  some  time  ;  after  which  Mrs.  Priscilla  Gurney,  a  Quakeress,  com- 
menced an  oration,  but  was  prevailed  upon  by  some  Gentlemen  to 
desist." — Bath  Chronicle,  17 — ,? 

Dr.  R.  Kingston  Fox,  of  London,  thinks  that  "Mr.  Fox"  may  have 
been  Francis  Fox  of  Falmouth.  "  He  was  a  valued  Minister  and  had  a 
strong  voice  and  solemn  manner.  He  attended  London  Y.M.  in  1794  and 
might  have  taken  Bath  en  route.  He  died,  3'oung,  next  year  of  fever.  He 
is  the  only  Fox,  Minister,  that  I  know  of  in  this  period  (a  man)." 
JPrisciila  Hannah  Gurney  (1757-1S28)  was  daughter  of  Joseph  and 
Christiana  (Barclay)  Gurney.  ".She  was  of  the  old  school;  her  costume 
partook  of  this,  and  her  long  retention  of  the  black  hood  gave  much 
character  to  her  appearance."  (Hyre,  Gurr.eyz  of  EarlhatK,  i.  104.)  She 
"  was  small  in  person,  beautiful  in  countenance,  elegant  in  manner, 
delicate  in  health  and  almost  fastidiously  refined  in  habit  "  {ibid.  p.  303). 
P.  II .  Gurney  visited  Bath  frequently. 

1  Another  copy  of  this  newseutting  in  D,  is  dated,  in  writing,  zS/;. 
If  this  date,  was  correct,  "Mr.  Fox"  was  net  Francis  Fox. 

Vol  jr.— 108. 


©ocumenfe  (Refaitng  to  ^amts  (Tlagfer 


/A*  ROM  several  diflerent  sources  manuscripts  connected 
with   James    Naylcr   have  recently  reached  the 

'  .  '  Devonshire  House  Reference  Library.  We  propose 
to  print  some  of  these  in  full  and  others  in  part,  with 

such  annotation  as  shall  place  them  in  their  historical 

setting.1 

I 

John  Spooner  and  Agnes  Vayera  to  James  Nayler 

[circa  1653]2 

James  Nayler  my  deare  Brother  my  deareloue  salutes 
ye  in  ye  lord  truely  deare.  Brother  J  find  ye  gcodnes  of 
god  great  to  me  in  bringeing  me  into  these  outward 
bondes  &  ye  marcies  of  ye  lord  is  large  &  free  towards 
me  ye  words  \\TCh  yu  wrott  to  me  they  were 

excetinge  saruisable  to  me,  biding  me  mind  ya  foundation 
t  hey  were  like  Arowes  in  my  harte  &  yet  like  oyntment. 

.  J  should  be  glad  to  se  more  of  thy  writting  to 
me  if  it  were  but  tow  lines  J  am  thine  in  yl  wch  Jnduers 
lor  eucr  as  J  abid  faythfull  to  y«  lord. 

John  Sponer. 
my  deare  Brother  Myles  Bateman  Desiers  to  be 
rc  merrily  eel  to  y«.    Deare  hart  if  y*J  se  our  dere  Brother 
George  jTox  rememb-e  vs  to  hime  yr  prayrs  to  god  for  vs. 

Deare  Brother  my  deare  &  tender  loue  saJlutes  the, 
y  words  wfh  y»  wroat  to  me  was  ye  words  of  yc  Lord, 
they  sanke  depe  into  me.  .  .  .  Deare  harte,  pray 
tor  me  >7t  J  may  prise  his  loue  for  ye  prayers  of  ye  faithfull 
auaileth  much  wth  god    J  am  thy  sister  in  my  mesuer 

Agnus  Vayera. 

Both  letters  are  written  in  one  contemporary  hand 
'ipori  a  small  piece  of  paper. 

John  Spooner  was  probably  a  North-countryman . 
In  the  Tenth  Month  of  1654  ne  v,as  in  Appleby  Jail  with 

r  Iu  the  notes  we  have  had  the  valued  assistance  of  William  C. 

liraithwaitii. 

1  l-rom  a  MS.  belonging  to  Mary  jane  Fox,  of  London,  deposited  in  D. 


DOC  UMEN  TS  RELA  TING  TO  J  A  MES  NA  YLER   1 9 


Christopher  Taylor,  Miles  Bateman,  Agnes  Ayrey,  and 
others  (Gwarth.  MSS.  i.  14,  see  Quakeriana,  iii.  25). 
Later  in  the  year  he  married  Agnes  Ayrey,  respecting 
which  marriage  George  Ta}dor  wrote  to  M.  Fell, 

Agnes  Ayray  and  Jo  :  Sponer  are  (as  wee  are  informed)  Married,  it 
were  well  if  it  bad  beene  done  in  the  light,  our  Spirrits  Cannot  releish  it 
only  wee  leaue  it  in  silence  for feare  of  giueing  oflcnce  ;  but  it  were  well 
if  less  of  that  were  pratised  amongest  friends  (Swarth.  MSS.  i.  214,  dated 
26  xii.  1654). 

The  Westmorland  Registers  record  the  marriage  of 

"  Anne  with  John  Spooner,  9  xii.  1654  >  Besse 

states  that  Anne  Ayrey  was  in  prison  with  John  Spooner 
in  1656  (?  should  be  1654)  anc^  iR  1669  "John  Spooner 
and  Anne  his  wife  "  Y\rere  J  presented  "  at  Windermere 
for  not  receiving  the  Communion  (The  Journal,  iv.  29). 

The  only  other  reference  known  to  us  respecting 
Agnes  Vayera  is  contained,  in  a  letter  from  Richard 
Hubberthorne  to  George  Fox,  from  Frandley  in  Cheshire, 
29  iii.  1654,  *n  which  he  writes, 

it  lay  vpon  mee  to  tell  thee  that  Agnes  vairey  is  not  seruisable  to 
goe  forth  for  Inst  and  filth  and  darknes  rules  in  her  and  there  is  A  filthy 
scandall  raysed  Concerninge  her  goinge  to  Eatean*  :  yl  they  not  suileringe 
thern  to  goe  into  ye  towne  wheare  he  preached  they  lay  wayt  for  him  in 
y*  way  and  soe  charged  Another  man  and  said  it  was  he  :  and  was  not, 
and  soe  yc  truth  Comes  to  bee  scandalised  by  such  who  run  in  there  wills 
(Swarth.  MSS.  iv.  1). 

Were  Agnes  {Anne)  Vayera  {Ayrey)  one  and  the  same? 


II 

James  Nayler  to  the  Town  of  Bradford2 
This  is  a.  long  autograph  address,  undated,  entitled 
M  To  ye  towne  of  Bradforth,  priests  Oilicers  &  people/'  and 
referring  by  name  to  Alexander  Robinson,  John  Leake 
and  Jonas  Waterhouse,*  "  who  profese  your  selucs  to  be. 
ministers  of  Xt,"  to  behold  the  fruits  of  their  ministry. 
The  hearers  had  stoned,  mocked  and  beaten  Friends  and 

3  The  meaning  is  not  clear.  Is  the  reference  to  Samuel  Eaton 
(c.  1596-1664),  minister  of  Stockport  and  opponent  of  Quakerism? 
"Some  of  the  people  here  [Stockport]  ran  things  to  a  great  height,  and 
grew  wiser  than  their  minister,  so  that  they  occasioned  him  much 
difficulty"  {Noy.con.  Mem.  ii.  361). 

<  Jonas  Waterhouse,  M.A.,  ejected  from  Bradford,  1662.  "  A  learned 
man,  a  lover  oi  peace  and  greatly  esteemed  for  his  works-sake  "  {Nor.ccn. 
Mem.  iii.  426). 


2o  DOCUMENTS  RELATING  TO  JAMES  NAYLER 


uncivilly  treated  the  women,  and  threatened  Friends  in 
their  meeting-place.  Moreover,  under  pretence  of  law, 
they  had  been  haled  out  of  meeting  when  at  prayer,  and 
thei|  b'ood  shed  by  drunken  men. 

The  subscription  reads  :  "  Written  from  your  soules 
froind  who  in  loue  thereto  :  to  your  towrie  came  ;  who 
to  ye  world  is  knowne  by  the  name  of  James  Nayler. 

Ill 

John  B  i  .l  l \ k g s le y  to  James  Nayler,  16542 

This  letter,  perhaps  the  original,  dated  "  Chester- 
field, Dec.  23,  1654,"  ]S  headed  "  Jfor  James  Nayler 
Wandring  Quaker  and  his  fellow-seducers,  persecutors  of 
the  faithful!  ministers  of  ye  Gospel  of  Christ,"  and  invites 
Nayler  "to  meete  in  a  way  of  christian  conference." 
The  writer  propounds  six  questions  for  discussion,  of  which 
the  fifth  runs,  "  whether  you  Quakers  haue  any  lawfuU 
call  from  God  to  leaue  youv  particular  callings  or  families 
to  wander  vp  &  downe  the  Nation  publishing  doctrines 
contrary  to  the  Doctrine  of  Christ  ?  I  deny  it,  prone  it 
if  you  can." 

The  conference  took  place  as  arranged  on  the  3rd  of 
Eleventh  Month  (Jan.),  1654/5,  and  a  record  of  it  from  the 
Quaker  side  was  printed  in  1655 — Dispute  between  James 
Nayler  and  the  Parish  Teachers  of  Chesterfield,  by  a  Challenge 
ozainst  ktinj  In  reply  to  Question  5,  Nayler  states, 
"  Our  call  from  God  we  witness,  to  leave  all  and  follow 
kmi  as  wanderers,  who  had  not  whereon  to  la}7  his  head, 
and  in  love  to  soul,  to  deny  our  selves,  and  worldly 
1 Q f  crest ,  to  publish  the  acceptable  year  of  the  Lord.  . 
and  this  is  not  contrary  to  the  doctrine  of  Christ,  but  the 
same  which  he  practised  and  those  that  he  called." 

Other  MSS.  in  D.  refer  to  this  Conference  as,  e.g. 
BosWell  Middleton,  p.  15,  and  Samuel  Watson,  p.  147. 

John  .Billingsley  (1625-1684)  was  appointed  Vicar  of 
Chesterfield  in  1653.  He  is  mentioned  in  An  Exact 
History  of  James  Nayler,  1657,  p.  19,  and  in  Fox's  Great 
Mistay,  1659,  P-  123. 

*  On*:  copy  in  Dv  the  dale  "  3d  of  11.  rco  1654  "  being  given  by  an 
*azly  o-.vrxr  ia  writing  on  the  title  page. 


DOCUMENTS  RELATING  TO  JAMES  NAYLER  21 


IV 

James  NAyler  in  Bridewell  Prison6 

28th  January  1656,  57. 
By  warrant  from  the  hand  of  the  honbIe  Sir  Thomas 
Widdington,  Knt.  Speaker  of  the  Ho :  of  Parliament, 
dated  iGtb  Dec.  1656,  directing  the  Governors  to  receive 
&  keep  James  Naylor  at  hard  labour  &  to  deny  him  all 
Society :  This  warrant  was  read  to  J.  Naylor  who  had 
been  brought  from  Bristol  :  he  was  searched  to  find  if  he 
had  ink  or  paper  about  him  :  he  is  to  be  put  to  hard 
labour  in  the  room  of  the  west  side  of  the  common  prison 
to  be  lodged  there,  bedding,  coverlid,  two  blankets  & 
sheets  provided  to  keep  him  from  the  cold,  no  fyer  nor 
candle  allowed.  The  inner  door  carefully  locked  & 
the  out  with  2  good  locks  &  keys  :  the  steward  to  keep 
the  key  of  the  new  lock  to  the  outer  door  &  the  Porter  that 
of  the  old  lock  &  the  Steward  &  Porter  &  Thomas 
Carpenter  an  Art  Mi7  to  go  to  deliver  to  Naylor  his  work 
&  to  search  his  hemp  :  &  be  is  to  have  relief  as  much  as 
his  labour  will  earn  for  every  cwt,  of  hemp  Sd  &  9/  for  work 
further  advanced  in  heating  etc.  and  to  be  allowed  such 
diet  as  is  usual.  The  Steward  &  Porter  to  be  with  him  at 
Meals,  but  hold  no  conference  with  him  :  if  he  be  ill  the 
Surgeon  to  attend  him  :  the  windows  to  be  glazed  &  partly 
boarded  &  no  one  but  the  President  or  Tresr  &  4  Governors 
to  see  him  on  any  pretence  whatever,  except  the  Steward 
&  Porter  as  already  ordered. 

31s1  Jany.  1656,  57  : — Permitted  to  J.  Naylor  that 
his  wife  may  visit  him  in  the  presence  of  4  of  the  Governors 
&  to  see  that  no  ink  pen  or  paper  be  given  to  him  &  his 
room  to  be  searched  &  J.N.  to  be  transferred  to  the 
Stewards  House  for  one  day  whilst  the  Carpenter  is 
turning  and  furnishing  the  boards  &c. 

2i3t  Feby  1656,  57  : — Di  Higgs  for  Dr  Nurse 
visits  J.  Naylor  &  discovers  a  wound  in  his  leg,  pulse 
low  &  water  out  of  sorts,  so  prescribed  sugar  of  roses 

6  Printed  by  permission  of  the  Treasurer  of  the  Bridewell  Royal 
Hospital,  from  a  copy  supplied  per  Rev.  E.  G.  O'Donoghue,  Chaplain 
of  the  Kethkm  Royal  Hospital. 

*  Art  M'=-Arts  Master,  the  mail  who  taught  the  apprentices  at 
Bridewell  their  trades. 


22  DOCUMENTS  RELATING  TO  JAMES  NAYLER 


&  Milke  as  good  for  him  :  when  visited  by  some  of  the 
Governors  J.N.  is  found  to  be  well  &  he  only  com  plaining 
of  indisposition  but  fearing  consumption.  It  is  found  that 
he  is  unwilling  to  eat  meat  but  prefers  boiled  Milk  & 
bread  &  water  gruel  &  barley  broth  :  ordered  that  he 
has  what  diet  he  pleases  commensurate  with  his  earnings. 

25th  Feby  1656,  57  : — A  report  on  the  23rd  inst :  Dr. 
Nurse  &  others  examined  J  Na}dor  who  alleged  that  he 
was  sick  :  but  found  his  pulse  good  &  viewed  his  water 
&  descoursed  with  him  concerning  the  temper  of  his  body 
8z  Concluded  thct  he  Was  not  sicke  at  all  but  in  good  health : 
the  comtr  desire  that  Parliament  be  acquainted  therewith 
if  occasion  so  be  required. 

25th  March  1656,  57  : — J  Naylor  to  be  permitted  to 
have  his  wife  in  his  rooms  with  him,  Dr  Nurse  made  a 
certificate  that  he  may  attend  the  Court  without  danger 
to  his  life — tho  weak  he  is  fairty  healthy  &  complains  of 
a  cough  which  he  suffered  from  when  in  the  Army  &  a 
pain  in  the  stomach  after  eating  pudding  :  &  that  if  he 
worked  a  bit  harder  he  would  degest  his  food  better.  When 
brought  before  the  court  J.N.  pronounced  to  be  in  fair 
health  so  was  returned  to  his  prison  room. 

15  th  M  a y  1657: — J  Naylor  being  removed  to  Pollard's 
House  is  to  be  kept  in  most  strict  conformity  as  he  was 
originally  &  in  accordance  with  the  Parliament  orders  & 
those  of  the  Doctor. 

28th  May  1657 : — J.  Naylor  to  be  taken  care  of  by  an 
ancient  widow  Pollard  by  name,  as  his  nurse,  to  be 
tended  by  her  for  Soup  &c. 

24th  Nov.  1657  : — Pollard  to  have  20/--  for  looking- 
after  J.  Naylor,  but  no  one  to  come  near  him. 

20^  Nov.  1657  :— MP  Pollard  to  have  20/-  for 
attending  J.  Naylor  and  Dr.  Nurse  £20  for  general 
attendance  on  all  inmates  of  the  Hospital. 

25th  June  1658  : — James  Naylor  being  in  good  health 
to  be  put  to  labour  to  be  allowed  what  he  can  earn,  or  what 
his  friends  send  him  but  there  is  to  be  a  strict  watch 
kept  that  he  have  conference  with  no  one  other  than  widow 
Pollard  to  do  necessities  in  hid  room. 


DOCUMENTS  RELATING  TO  JAMES  NAYLER  23 


26th  Aug.  1658  : — Ml  Moore  J. P.  solicits  delivery  of 
J.  Naylor,  but  not  granted. 

8th  June  1659  : — The  President  reported  as  to  what 
had  been  done  with  regard  to  J.  Naylor  :  it  is  not 
considered  safe  that  he  should  be  set  at  liberty  till  he  be 
discharged  by  Parliament  according  to  the  exegences  of 
the  Warrant  whereby  he  was  committed. 


V 

TotiNf  KTayTer^s  Accottnt  As  Executor  to  his  Father, 
James  Nayler,  17TH  of  March,  16632 

The  reall  estate  by  the  Jnventorye  over  | 
&  above  good  debts  j 
Willm  Naylor  owed 
Anthonye  Casson 
Robert  Graveley 
John  Scott 

Totall  of  the  reall  estate 

These  debts  accounted  desperate. 
John  Hodgson  i:i     o  od 

Wilim  Swinden  201'     o  o 

John  Naylor  ijj*     0  od 

Total  32!i  :  not  to  be  accounted  for. 

Debts  oweing  by  the  deceased  &  to  be  deducted  out 
of  the  real!  estate. 


64K 

10s 

4d 

2U 

0 

0 

2 

6 

8^ 

2 

15s 

0 

r5u 

0 

0 

86* 

12s 

od 

To  Doctor  Brownlowe 

3U 

0 

0 

To  John  Roper 

1 

10 

0 

To  John  Lee 

11 

0 

0 

To  Stephen  Oxley 

0 

5 

0 

To  Mary  Simpson  . 

0 

4 

0 

pveing  of  the  will 

1 

5 

0 

the  mortuarye8 

0 

10 

0 

The  wiues  thirds  of  the  goods9 

28* 

17* 

4d 

Total  to  be 

defalked10  46* 

11s 

4d 

8  A  mortuary  was  a  customary  gift  claimed  by  the  incumbent  of  a 
parish  from  the  estate  of  a  deceased,  parishioner, 

9  A  "  tlrird  of  the  goods  "  was  the  extent  to  which  a  widow  could 
claim  in  the  ca.se  of  no  will  being  left. 

10  Defalk  is  to  deduct  from  an  account.  The  word  is  still  locally  in 
legal  use  in  "U.S.A. 


24  DOCUMENTS  RELATING  TO  JAMES  NAYLER 


chardged  vpon  him 

defalke 
Remaines 


86«  12s  o 
46H  iis  4d 
40*    0  8d 


Jfortye  pounds  being 
devised  to  Sarah  a 


Soe  there  is  eight  pence  to  be 
devided  amongst  the  mother 


daughter  as  a  legacy  &  &  hue  children — according  to 
her  childs  pte  &  portion"     the  devise  of  the  will,  &  nothing 

for  the  Executor  but  his  labour 


As  James  Nayler  died  in  October,,  1660,  it  seems 
sirange  thai  uie  account  should  not  be  made  till  March, 
1663/4.  But  the  names  Oxley  and  Roper,  and  also 
William  Nayler,  occur  in  close  association  with  Nayler  in 
a  letter  written  to  him  by  R.  Farnsworth  in  1652 
(Swarth.  MSS.  i.  372),  and  the  paper  here  printed  is  one 
of  a  series  that  undoubtedly  concerns  James  Nayler. 

Although  we  have  no  proof  that  Nayler's  wife,  Anne, 
was  in  sympathy  with  his  religious  principles,  it  is  evident 
from  the  petition  she  addressed  to  the  King  in  February, 
1656 that  she  was  anxious  to  be  with  her  husband  in 
Bridewell,  and  to' relieve  his  sufferings. 

No  entries  occur  in  the  Friends'  Registers  for  York- 
shire of  the  births  of  children  of  James  Nayler,  but  the 
Wakefield  Parish  Registers  record  the  baptisms  of 
Mar}'  (1640),  Jane  (1641),  and  Sarah  (1643),  the  name  of 
the  wife  not  given  (D.N.B.). 

u  As  only  three  children  appear  on  the  Wakefield  Parish'Registers, 
Sarah,  born  .1643,  the  youngest,  it  seems  possible  that  the  five  children 
mentioned  in  1663  were  of  a  second  marriage  ;  which  might  account  for 
Sarah's  legacy. 

12  This  seems  rather  unnecessary  self-pity  on  the  part  of  the 
"  Executor,"  as,  according  to  the  list  of  "  desperate  "  debts,  he  owed  £11. 

13  Extracts  from  State  Papers,  p.  24. 


The  past  is  never  irrelevant ;  it  is  a  guiding  series  of  lights,  and 
it  has  to  be  prolonged.  To-day  no  stud}'  of  origins  is  considered  waste 
of  time  that  is  pursued  in  earnest ;  and  we  may  fairly  claim  that  to  test 
oar  own  ideas  and  instincts  and  experiences  by  those  of  other  ages  is,  at 
the  very  least,  what  we  call  scientific  ;  while  in  the  practical  conduct  of 
life  it  may  save  us  from  false  starts  innumerable  and  help  to  set  us  on 
some  sure  path. 

Preface  to  Glover's  Nature  and  Purpose  of  a  Christian  Society,  1912. 


for  his  paines.12 


Z%i  ComSrftg*  "^ournaf" 

Continued  from  vol.  ix.  p.  203 


25. — Vol.  II.  p.  405. — -Since  the  note  was  written  respecting  Elizabeth 
Heath  01  the  Queen's  Head,  Mansfield,  the  energetic  researches  of  Emily 
Manners,  of  Mansfield,1  have  thrown  doubt  upon  the  statement  that 
George  Fox  lodged  at  the  Inn  kept  by  Elizabeth  Heath.  The  Editor's 
authorities  for  the  statement  are  (i.)  the  title  of  the  drawing,  signed  "  E.  B., 
'j  i.y  and  '  i. .  M.  "  {i.e.,  Edward  Backhouse  and  Thomas  Mounsey),  "  The 
Queen's  Head  Inn,  where  G.  Fox  used  to  stay  at  Mansfield,"  and 
(ii.)  a  paragraph  in  The  Friend  (Load.),  1851,  which  connects  the  land- 
lady of  the  Queen's  Head  with  the  founder  of  the  Charity. 


26. —  Vol.  II.  463. — In  addition  to  the  premier  place  occupied  by 
women  in  preaching  Quakerism  was  also  that  of  suffering  from  the  lash — 
the  first  Friend  to  be  whipped  in  England  v.- as  Mary  Fisher,  and  the  first 
in  America  was  Mary  Clark.  So  states  Bowden  in  his  Hist,  of  Friends  in 
America,  i.  126. 


27.- — Vol.  II.  228. — The  Governor  of  New  Castle,  Delaware,  who 
invited  George  Fox  into  his  house,  was  Captain  Carre.  See  note  to  Samuel 
Smith's  Hist.\of  Friends  in  Pa.,  chap.  II.  (The  Friend  (Phila.),  xviii.  381)  :— 
"  Captain  Carre  went  commonly  under  the  denomination  of  Governor 
among  the  inhabitants  here." 


28. — Vol.  II.  pp.  242,  244. — The  visit  of  John  Cartwright  and  John 
Jay  to  "  Acomake  in  Virginia  "  is  twice  referred  to  (not  in  Eikvood  ed. 
of  1  he  Journal).  In  a  book  by  Jennings  Cropper  Wise,  of  Richmond, 
Va.,  entitled  Ye  Kingdoms  of  Accavcmacke  or  ike  Eastern.  Shore  of  Virginia 
■in  the  Seventeenth  Century,  Richmond,  191 1,  there  is  a  full  account  of  this 
district.2  Accomack  means  "  on-the-other-side-of- water  place,"  or  "  the 
other  shore,"  that  is  the  detached  portion  of  Virginia  lying  to  the  east  of 
the  Chesapeake,  and  on  the  borders  of  Va.  and  Md. 

There  was  another  Accomack  in  X.E.,  now  Plymouth,  Mass. 


29. — Vol.  II.  pp.  241-243. — The  town  and  district  of  A  nnamessex  lies 
to  the  north  of  Accomack,  and  within  the  colony  oiMd.,  in  Somerset  Co. 
Ani  Fioer  is  probably  the  same  as  Anemessy  River,  See  above  bock,  and 
The  Journax,  ix.  50  ;  vi.  135. 

1  See  next  number  of  The  Journal. 
u  See  page  30  of  this  number. 


25 


26 


THE  CAMBRIDGE  "JOURNAL" 


30. — Vol.  II.  p.  242. — The  Wicocomococs  were  a  tribe  of  Indians  "who 
dwelt  far  up  the  great  bay  "  (op.  cit.  p.  58).  WHcomoco  means  "  place 
where  the  houses  are  building."    See  The  Journal,  vi.  134,  n. 

William  Colebourne  is  twice  mentioned  by  Wise,  once  in  1651/2,  as 
signatory  to  an  engagement  of  faithfulness  to  the  Commonwealth,  and 
again  in  1660,  when  arrested  and  taken  to  James  City  for  harbouring 
Quakers. 


31. — Vol.  II.  p.  243. — Hurigar's  Creek  was  in  Northampton  Co.,  on  the 
Eastern  Shore,  in  the  district  known  as  Accomack.  Wise  frequently 
mentions  the  place  and  river  Hyngar  (Hoi:ga). 


vol  TT  pv  23H~-J<ikei6n  may  be  the  Indian  village  Kickotan, 
*'  located  upon  the  present  site  of  Hampton,"  Va.  (op.  cit-.).  Esther  Palmer 
was  at  Kicatan  in  1705  (The  Journal,  vi.  68),  and  Thomas  Story  about 
the  same  time,  also  Samuel  Bownas. 


33. — Vol.  II.  p.  233.— A  Col.  Thomas  Dew  is  mentioned  by  Wise, 
op.  cii.y  as  an  assistant  to  Gov.  Bennet  in  the  settlement  of  the  peace  of 
Northampton  Co.  (Accomack). 


34. — Vol.  II.  pp.  209,  210,  240. —  Po.tuxer.t—''  little  falls  "  ;  Cfwptank 
="  stream  that  separates";  Potomaok—11  something  brought,"  or 
"they  come  by  water."  See  "Translation  of  certain  Indian  names 
found  in  Accomack  and  Northampton  Counties,  and  on  the  Eastern 
Shore  of  Maryland,"  in  Wise,  op.  cit. 


35. —  Vol.  II.  p.  430. — Lewis  Morris  died  14th  of  Twelfth  Month, 
1690/91.    Mary  Morris  died  on  the  21st  of  the  same. 


On  Thursday  last  died,  immensely  rich,  at  his  House  in  Old-street, 
Mr.  Hackney,1  one  of  the  People  call'd  Quakers,  an  eminent  Scarlet  Dyer. 

— Newscutting  in  D.,  dated  1737. 

1  This  was  probably  Joseph  Hackney,  who  died  9  xii.  1736,  aged 
fifty-six. 


On  Thursday  Mr.  Dickinson,1  a  Quaker  of  Bristol,  was  married  to 
Miss  Barnard  of  Fcnchurch-street,  a  young  Lady  of  the  same  Persuasion, 
of  line  Accomplishments,  and  very  considerable  Fortune.  They  dined 
afterwards  at  Pontack's,  where  there  was  an  elegant  and  splendid  Enter- 
tainment prepared  on  the  Occasion;  after  which  the  whole  Company 
in  a  Train  of  near  Twenty  Coaches,  set  out  for  her  Father's  Country 
House,  at  Kingston  upon  Thames. 

— Newscutting  in  D.,  dated  r,  36. 
1  Ezekiel  Dickinson,  of  Monks,  Wilts,  gentleman,  married  Frances 
Barnard,  daughter  of  Thomas  Barnard,  late  of  London,  at  Devonshire 
House,  26  vi.  1736. 


fpttetntatione  in  Bpiscopd  Q3mtat\omf 
■\662M79 


LINCOLNSHIRE 
Arranged  in  Wapentakes 


Continued,  from  vol.  vii.  page  20 


Man  ley  Wapentake 

Whitton.  1662.  Aug.  22,  James  Taylor,  Thomas 
Norton,  Robert  Walker — for  refusing  to  come  to 
Church. 

1662.  Aug.  25.  Thomas  Norton  and  Robert  Walker 
— Quakers  who  absent  thmselves  fro  the  Church. 

1663.  April  30.  Elizabeth  the  wife  of  James 
Taylor,  Elizabeth  the  wife  of  Thomas  Norton — for  her 
refusal  to  come  to  Ch. 

Hellen  the  wife  of  Robert  Walker — for  the  like — ■ 
stand  excoicate,  still  unabsolved. 

1663-4.  Rob1  Walker,  James  Taylor,  Tho  :  Norton — 
excoicate. 

1663.  Oct.  15.  Thomas  Norton — as  an  excom- 
munciate  pson  &  as  a  Quaker. 

James  Tayler,  Robf-  Walker — for  the  like. 

Elisabeth  the  wife  of  the  said  Thomas  Norton — as  a 
pson  suspended. 

Elisabeth  the  wife  of  the  said  James  Tayler,  Ellen 
the  wife  of  the  said  Rob1  Walker — for  the  like.. 

Thomas  Norton — for  burying  a  child  unbaptized, 
liveing  3  weeks  or  a  Moneth  as  wee  know. 

*  *  *  * 

Wiilm  Fowler  ibm — for  employing  as  a  servant 
under  wages  Thomas  Norton  of  Whitton  being  a  pson 
excoicate  with  Inhibition  &  soe  conversing  with  him  for 
the  most  part  of  the  last  harvest. 

1664.  Nov.  7.  James  Taylor  &  his  wife,  Thomas 
Norton  &  his  wife,  Rob1  Walker  &  his  wife — for  standing 
excoicate. 


27 


28  PRESENTATIONS  IN  EPISCOPAL  VI  SIT  A  TIONS 


Winteringham.  1662.  Aug.  25.  Thomas  Wresle, 
Will^  Smyth,  WiUm  Shauckster,  Anthony  Shauckster — 
psented  for  reputed  Quakers  &  not  coming  to  their  pish 
Church. 

Elizabeth  Edwards,  widdow,  Michael  Sutton,  Anthony, 
the  sonn  of  Michael  Farrow,  Rob*  Nicholas,  the  sonne  of 
Edward  Wilkinson,  Ann  Beck,  vid,  Wiilm  Harrison,  Robt 
Harrison,  Susanna  Brown  their  servant,  Mar}r,  the  wife 
of  Thomas  Oliver,  Gervase  Oyle  and  Mary  his  wife,  Rob* 
Pyle,  Edward  Baildon  and  Magdalen  his  wife,  Rob1  Sharpe 
&  Elizabeth  his  wife,  Ann  Hood  their  servant — ditto, — ditto. 

Amie  Beck — for  not  coming  to  Church  to  heare  divine 
Service  &  not  receiving  the  Sacrament. 

Ann  Foster,  Mary  Foster — r3sented  as  Quakers. 

Alice  wife  of  Tho.  Wressell — pd  for  refusing  to  come 
to  her  pish  Church  &  returne  thanks  for  delivfance  in  the 
pill  of  Child-birth. 

1662.  Oct.  29.  Gard  dicunt : — That  they  pfsent  as 
refusers  to  come  to  the  publique  assemblies,  prayers  & 
services  of  the  Church. — Thomas  Wressell  &  Alice  his  wife, 
Willra  Smith  his  late  apprentice,  Anthony  Shaukston, 
Wifim  Harrison,  Susanna  Browne  his  maidservant,  Rob1 
Harrison  his  brother,  Anne  Becke,  wid,  Rob*  Wilkinson, 
Rob*  Sharpe  &  Elizabeth  his  wife,  Gervase  Oyle  &  Mary 
his  wife,  Edward  Baildon  &  Magdalen  his  wife,  Rob1  Oyle, 
Anne  Fisher,  Mary  Foster— all.  ex.  before. 

1663-4.  Tho-  Wressell  &  Alice  his  wife,  Antho  : 
Shaukster,  Nich  :  Wilkinson,  Antho.  Farrow,  Mary 
Foster,  Anne  Beck,  Wiilm  Harrison  &  Mary  his  wife, 
Thomas  Oliver  &  Mary  his  wife,  Gervase  Oyle  &  Mary  his 
wife,  Robt  Sharpe  &"  Elizabeth  his  wife,  Edw.  Bailden 
&  Magdalen  his  wife,  Rob1  Oyle — for  standing  excoicate. 

1662.  Oct.  29.  They  present  for  refusing  to  make 
their  publick  thanksgiving  to  God  in  the  Church  after 
delivery  from  the  pill  of  Childbirth  these  married  women 
following — Alice  the  wife  of  Thomas  Wressell,  Anne  the 
wife  of  Michael  Sutton,  Elizabeth  the  wife  of  Rob4  Sharpe, 
Mary  the  wife  of  Jervase  Gyle*  Magdalen  the  wife  of 
Edward  Bailden. 

For  refusing  to  send  their  Infant  Children  to  be 
baptised  in  the' Church— -Tho.  Wressell,  Rob1  Sharpe, 
Gervase  Oyle,  Edward  Bailden,  Rob*  Oyle— all  exc  before. 


SA  YINGS  OF  WILLI  A  M  PENN 


29 


for  goeing  to  plow  on  the  day  of  the  feast  of  St. 
Michael  the  Archangel — Rob*  Harrison — ex. 

for  refuseing  to  bury  their  dead  according  to  the 
Rights  of  the  Church  of  England  &  for  burying  them  in 
an  Orchard — Witim  Harrison,  The  Wressell. 

1663.    Ap.  30.    ui  supra. 

1663.  Oct.  15.  ut  supra  for  standing  excoicate 
with  Inhibition — Mary  the  wife  of  Wiiim  Harrison  for 
refusing  to  come  to  her  pish  Church. 

1664.  Ap.  21.  Wiilm  Harrison — for  taking  to 
Rirnselfe  one  Mary  Smith  of  the  Isle  of  Axholme  as  his 
wife  &  was  not  marryed  according  to  the  Lawes  of  the 
Realm  e. 

1664.  Nov.  4.  Mary  Foster,  Anne  Brick  [Beck], 
WiUm  Harrison  &  Mary  his  wife,  Thomas  Oliver  &  Mary 
his  wife,  Gervase  Oyle  &  Mar}/  his  wife,  Rob1  Sharpe  & 
Elizabeth  his  wife,  Edward  Baldwin  [Bailden]  &  Magdalen 
his  wife,  —  Oyle — for  standing  excoicate. 

G.  Lyon  Turner 

To  be  continued 


#agmg£  of  (pHfKaitt  (penn 


HAT  is  not  the  Religion  of  a  man's  choice,  is  the  Religion  of  him 
that  imposes  it. 


We  are  apt  to  be  mighty  hot  upon  speculative  Errors,  and  break 
ail  Bounds  in  our  Resentments  ;  but  we  let  practical  ones  pass  without 
Remark,  if  not  without  Repentance  :  As  if  a  mistake  about  an  obscure 
Proposition  of  Faith  were  a  greater  evil,  than  the  breach  of  an  undoubted 
Precept. 

Let  us  not  think  Religion  a  litigious  thing;  nor  that  Christ  came  onely 
to  make  us  good  Disputants,  but  that  he  came  also  to  make  us  good 
Livers. 

Men  may  be  angry  for  God's  sake,  and  kill  People  too.  Christ  said 
it,  and  too  many  have  practised  it.  But  what  sort  of  Christians  must 
they  be,  I  pray,  that  can  hate  in  his  Name  who  bids  us  love,  and  kill  for 
his  sake,  that  forbids  killing,  and  commands  love,  even  to  Enemies. 

O  that  we  could  see  some  men  as  eager  to  turn  people  to  God,  as  they 
are  to  blow  them  up,  and  set  them  one  against  another. 

William  Penn's  Answer  to  William  Popple,  c.  i683,  in  A  Letter  to 
Mr.  Penn  with  His  Answer,  1688. 

Consult  not  away  thy  convictions. —  Wilfiayaa  Penn  to  Princess 
Elizabeth,  J  677,  see  Bulletin  of  Friend**  Historical  Society  0}  Phila.,  iv.  87. 


<&ar%  Jrtenbe  on  t$t  Basktn  fbfott 
of  Q&rgtma 


/J^HE  history  of  the  little  peninsula,  about  seventy 
■    miles    long    and    eight    miles    wide,  extending 


southward  from  Maryland  and  forming  the 
eastern  side  of  the  great  bay  of  Chesapeake1  has 
rerppflv  been  written  by  Jennings  Cropper  Wise,  of 
Richmond,  Va.,  and  published  by  the  Bell 'Company  of 
Richmond  (9  by  6,  pp.  406,  $2.00,  but  without  map' — a 
great  loss),  under  the  title,  Ye  Kingdome  of  Accawmacke 
or  the  Eastern  Shore  of  Virginia  in  the  Seventeenth 
Century.  This  study  commences  with  the  discovery  of 
the  Eastern  Shore  by  the  Spaniards  in  1524,  and  then 
describes  the  coming  of  the  English  under  Bartholomew 
Gilbert  in  1603,  and  John  Smith  in  1607. 

The  advent  of  Quakerism  ,was  on  this  wise  (page 


Toward  the  latter  part  of  1657,  a  ship  arrived  at  Jamestown  with 
Thomas  Thurston'-  and  Josiah  Co[a]le,  the  first  preachers  of  the  Society 
of  Friends  to  come  to  Virginia.  They  were  promptly  arrested  as 
disturbers  of  the  peace,  and  imprisoned,  but  being  soon  released  they 
repaired  to  Maryland.  Soon  after  the  arrival  of  Thurston  and  Cole, 
Quakers  began  in  great  numbers  to  make  their  appearance  on  the 
Eastern  Shore  of  Maryland  and  in  the  northern  part  of  Northampton 
[Accomack],  where  population  was  comparatively  scarce,  and  where  they 
could  establish  themselves  without  much  interference.  .  .  . 

William  Robinson  [Boston  martyr]  was  perhaps  the  most  conspicuous 
Quaker  Missionary  in  Northampton,  and  held  conventicles  in  manj-  of 
the  planters'  homes.  His  influence  must  have  been  very  great,  for  it 
extended  to  all  parts  of  the  Colony.  .  .  .  Six  of  the  fourteen  months 
he  spent  in  Virginia  were  passed  in  jail.  Robinson  continued  his  activity 
in  importing  his  brethren  whenever  he  was  at  liberty,  and  under  the 
pretense  of  transporting  them  to  Paxtuxuent.  he  would  land  them  at 
Nassawaddox,  where  they  were  received  by  Levin  Penwood*  who 
provided  a  ten-foot  log  cabin  for  a  house  of  worship.  This  was 
probably  the  first  Quaker  meeting-house  in  Virginia,  and  continued  to 
be  used  as  such  until  converted  into  a  wheat  barn.  A  much  better 
structure  was  erected  later  at  Nassawaddox,  for  after  the  Act  of  Toleration, 

1  Chesapeake-- "  a  superior  or  greater  salt  bay." 

a  For  Thomas  Thurston,  see  Camb.  Jul. 

3  For  Levin  Denwood,  sec  The  Journal,  vi.  135,  n. 


155)  :~ 


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passed  in  16SS,  George  Brickhouse,  of  Northampton,  left  to  the  Quaker 
sect  an  acre  of  laud  Surrounding  the  meeting-house,  and  Mrs.  Judith 
Patrick  bequeathed  thirty  shillings  for  the  repair  of  the  building. 
(Northampton  County  Records,  vol.  16S3-89,  p.  400;  vol.  1689-98,  p.  435.) 

In  1660,  the  Virginia  Assembly  passed  stringent 
laws  against  "  these  strange  people  who  were  accused  by 
the  Accomackians  of  slandering  the  clergy,  of  defying  the 
laws,  and  of  uttering  blasphemy/ '  This  persecution 
resulted  in  the  removal  of  many  Friends  across  the  border 
into  Maryland,  but  those  who  weathered  the  persecution 
rose  into  favour  with  the  inhabitants  of  Accomack. 
Thomas  Brown  and  his  wife,  of  Brown ville,  on  the  seashore 
of  Northampton,  "  were  visited  by  many  distinguished 
Friends  from  Philadelphia  "  (Wise,  quoting  Meade's 
Old  Churches),  "  and  were  of  such  known  integrity  that 
their  affirmation  was  received  instead  of  their  oath  " 
(page  158  ;  see  The  Journal,  vi.  135,  where,  in  the 
account  of  the  visit  of  Esther  Palmer  to  Accomack,  1705, 
there  is  a  reference  to  Susanna,  widow  of  Thomas 
Brown). 

The  author  does  not  quote  in  his  book  any  direct 
Quaker  authority,  nor  does  he  note  such  in  his  Biblio- 
graphy. He  might  have  made  mention  of  the  visit  of 
George  Fox,  who  travelled  down  as  far  as  Hungar  River, 
and  of  two  of  his  companions  who  also  visited  Accomack 
(see  page  25  of  this  issue  of  The  Journal). 

The  following  supposed  narrative  of  a  Pocomoke 
Chief  will  be  read  with  interest  :  — 

In.  the  moon  of  Roasting-Ears  (August)  palefaces  from  the  land 
of  the  Accomacks  wanted  war.  The  black  wampum- belt,  the  red  hatchet 
painted  on  it,  was  sent  from  chief  to  chief  along  the  sea-side  and  over 
beyond  to  Pocomoke.  The  King  of  the  bad  whites  was  angry,  and  came 
with  horse  and  guns.  After  awhile  the  cloud  went  do-.vn.  The  Quackels 
[Quakers]  came  into  our  land.  The  bad  white  chiefs  and  his  friends  had 
driven  them  there.  They  loved  peace.  But  at  one  time  he  put  oh  his 
war  paint  and  swam  the  Pocomoke  and  followed  them  to  Pocomoke.  He 
hated  Quackels.  Once  we  thought  of  killing  all  the  whites  when  in  a 
quarrel  and  divided.  But  the  Quackels  were  kind  to  Indians.  Then  tbe 
great  father  across  the  bay  said  the  bad  white  chief  must  stay  beyond  the 
marked  trees  (page  63). 

*  Probably  Col.  Edmund  Scarburgh  (Conjuroi  Scarburgh),  who 
died  in  1670/71.  lie  bore  great  hatred  towards  Quakers.  See  Jones, 
Quakers  in  Amevican  Colonies,  1911. 


ZH  Q#orft  of  jVtenc^'  (Reference  £\Btat%, 

T  is  thought  that  information  respecting  some  of  the  literary 
activities  carried  on  in  connection  with  Friends'  Reference  Library 
at  Devonshire  House  may  prove  of  interest  to  our  readers. 

VISITORS 

During  the  summer  and  autumn  of  last  year  a  large  number  of 
American  visitors,  Friends  and  others,  made  Devonshire  House  one  of  their 
pjaccs  of  caii.  Americans  generally  are  keenly  interested  in  the  Pen  a 
collection  of  MSS.  and  relics;  and  Friends  from  the  other  side,  or 
descendants  of  Friends,  are  delighted  to  find,  as  they  usually  can,  some 
reference  in  the  Card  Catalogue  to  their  forebears,  or  to  see  some  seven- 
teenth century  maunscript  or  tract  in  which  appears  the  name  of  their 
immigrant  or  earlier  ancestor. 

A  few  of  the  entries  in  the  Visitors'  Book  will  show  that  persons 
from  many  parts  are  finding  their  way  into  this  department  of  the  Central 
Offices.  Pfarrer  Theodor  Sippell,  Schweinsberg,  Germany  ;  Charles  M. 
Andrews,  Professor  of  American  History  in  Yale  University,  U.S.A.  ; 
Evarts  B.  Greene,  Professor  of  History  in  Illinois  University,  U.S.A.  ; 
I.  I.  Cox,  Professor  of  History  in  the  University  of  Cincinnati,  O.,  U.S.A.  ; 
W.  Perm  Cresson,  United  States  Embassy,  London  ;  Miss  Baily,  of  Pa., 
the  holder  of  the  first  Travelling  Fellowship  of  the  University  of  Illinois, 
U.S. A;  Dr.  Karl  Pearson,  University  College,  London;  A.  L.  Bell, 
H.M.  Dockyard,  Rcsytk,  N.B.  ;  Miss  French,  Record  Searcher  for  trie 
Committee  on  English  Research,  New  England  Historic  Genealogical 
Society  ;  Albert  E.  Morlan,  Belize,  Central  America. 

RESEARCH  WORK 

A  few  of  the  subjects  of  research  may  here  be  given,  some  of  them 
having  been  worked  out  by  the  Library  Staff,  and  others  by  students 
themselves: — Appreciative  notices  of  the  good  influence  the  Friends 
have  had  on  the  world  ;  Quaker  imprisonments  in  Horsham  Jail ;  Quit- 
rents  in  American  Colonies  ;  Information  regarding  the  ship  Welcome  ; 
German.  Influence  on  England  of  the  Seventeenth  Century,  particularly 
through  the  mystic,  Jacob  Boehme  ;  International  Tribunals;  Willi  aru 
Penn's  coat-of-arms  ;  statistics  of  birth-rate. 

Among  students  engaged  on  Quaker  literature  in  the  Library  may 
be  mentioned  : — 

Alice  Clark,  of  Street,  Somerset,  who  is  making  a  thorough  search 
for  information  on  the  principles  and  practice  of  Friends  regarding  the 
equality  of  men  and  women. 

Miss  Violet  Oakley,  of  Philadelphia  (introduced  by  W.  Penn 
Cresson,  of  the  American  Embassy),  has  come  over  to  study  subjects 
suitable  for  paintings  on  the  history  of  Pennsylvania.  Miss  Oakley  has 
been  commissioned  to  continue  the  work,  begun  by  the  late  Edwin  A. 

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Abbey,  of  decorating  the  principal  rooms  of  the  State  Capitol  at 
Harrisburg,  and  she  desires  that  all  her  subjects  shall  illustrate  the 
spirit  of  the  work  of  William  Pcnn. 

Albert  Cook  Myers  is  still  busily  pursuing  his  researches  for  his 
standard  edition  of  the  works  of  William  Penn,  with  Devonshire  House  as 
his  British  base.    Ellen  M.  Dawes  is  assisting  him. 

Dr.  Kingston  Fox  and  his  daughter  are  availing  themselves  of  fresh 
material  in  D.  for  a  life  of  Dr.  John  Fothergill. 

M,  Christabel  Cadbury,  of  Sutton  Coldfield,  completed,  in  the  autumn, 
her  studies  here  for  her  biography  of  Robert  Barclay  the  Apologist, 
since  published. 

Helen e  Fenger,  of  Copenhagen,  spent  some  time  in  the  Library 
preparing  to  write  a  history  of  the  Society  of  Friends  in  Denmark. 

A  London  lady  nas  spent  many  hours  at  Devonshire  Plouse,  and  also 
in  Plymouth  and  elsewhere,  collecting  information  regarding  William 
Cookworthy  and  Richard  Champion,  famed  makers  of  porcelain  and 
china  ware. 

Georgina  King  Lewis  has  been  in  frequent  consultation  in  regard  to 
her  new  Life  of  John  G.  Whittier. 

NATIONAL  LIBRARY  OF  WALES 
Communications  have  recently  been  opened  with  the  National  Library 
of  Wales,  Aberystwyth  (the  foundation  stones  of  which  were  laid  by  the 
King  and  Queen  in  July,  191 1),  per  the  Librarian,  John  Ballinger,  M.A. 
The  Library  has  acquired,  by  purchase  or  gift,  complete  sets  of  the 
publications  of  the  Friends'  Historical  Society,  the  'Friends'  Quarterly 
Examiner,  and  the  Annual  Monitor ;  and  other  Friends'  books,  especially 
those  relating  to  the  Principality,  are  being  collected  and  despatched  to 
Aberystwyth. 

NEW  BOOKS 

New  books  are  being  constantly  added  to  the  Library.  These  and 
other  objects  of  historical  interest  are  usually  on  exhibition  during 
Meeting  for  Sufferings  week,  i.e.,  for  a  few  days  prior  to  the  first  Friday 
in  each  month. 


A  Quaker  well  known  at  the  West-end  of  the  town,  after  having 
curiously  explored  the  rarities  in  the  Tower,  was  informed  by  the  Warden 
who  conducted  him,  that  it  was  customary  for  visitors  to  make  a 
present  to  the  Wardens  on  duty.  Nehemiah  hereupon  placed  in  the  hand 
of  Kis  friend  a  silver  twelve-pence;  this  produced  a  remonstrance 
from  the  Warden,  saying  that,  as  there  were  twelve  of  them  on  duty, 
it  would  only  be  a  penny  a-piece.  "  Return  my  gift,"  says  Nehemiah. 
This  being  done,  a  copper  penny  supplied  its  place,  accompanied  by  these 
words  : — "  Take  this,  and  inform  thy  brethren,  that  thou  only  wast 
employed  by  me." 

Nev.-scuttiug  in  D.,  dated  17SS. 

Vol.  x. — 109. 


$rten&0  in  Cwtvzni  BxUtatwct 


EXCLUDED  in  The  History  of  Bun-side,  recently  w  ritten  by  Thomas 
t.j  Jones,  for  many  years  schoolmaster  in  the  Parish  (Kendal :  Atkinson 
and  Pollitt,  pp.  52),  are  several  letters,  printed  from  a  modern 
manuscript,  purporting  or  pretending  to  be  written  in  the  early  Quaker 
days.  We  have  studied  the  contents  carefully  and  have  come  to  the 
conclusion  that  the  letters  are  of  modern  date,  cleverly  written,  but  in- 
accurate in  numerous  details.  The  first  letter  is  of  pre-Quaker  date — 
"  June  30,  1640  " — "  George  Foxe's  views  "  had  not  reached  Westmor- 
land in  that  year. 

A  Guide  to  British  Historical  Fiction,  by  Buckley  and  Williams 
(London:  Harrap,  j\  by  5,  pp.  182,  23.  6d.  net)  has  just  appeared.  Two 
Quaker  novels  receive  attention — "  Friend  Olivia,"  by  Amelia  E.  Ban, 
and  "  A  Gallant  Quaker,"  by  Margaret  H.  Robertson — both  dealing 
with  the  heroic  period  of  Quakerism. 


The  Central  Standing  Committee  of  London  and  Middlesex  Q.M. 
has  issued  a  useful  folder,  entitled  Snort  Summaries  of  Recent  Friends' 
Pamphlets  (Secretary,  136,  Bishopsgafe,  London,  E.C.).  The  brief  notices 
are  divided  under  headings  ;  the  pamphlets  are  from  the  stock  of  London 
Y.M.,  Yorkshire  1905  Committee,  Friends'  Tract  Association,  Friends' 
Home  Mission  and  Extension  Committee,  and  Headley  Brothers. 

T)r.  Williamson,  of  Hampstead,  has  recently  concluded  a  work  on 
horology,  entitled  The  Catalogue  of  the  Collection  of  Watches,  the  Property 
of  J.  Piefpont  Morgan.  Its  size  is  imperial  quarto,  and  it  is  privately 
printed  on  hand-made  paper,  on  Japanese  vellum,  and  on  pure  vellum,  for 
gratuitous  distribution  onby.  There  are  some  300  pages  in  the  volume, 
the  best  edition  having  fifty- five  gravure  plates  and  thirty-seven  hand- 
coloured  facsimiles.  The  pages  containing  references  to  Quaker  watch- 
makers, of  whose  work  there  are  specimens  in  the  "  Collection,"  have  been 
presented  to  D. — George  Graham  (1673- 1751),  Daniel  Quare  (1648-1723/4) 
and  Thomas  Wagstaffe  (c.  1724-1S02).  The  author  of  this  magnificent 
work  has  been  in  frequent  communication  with  the  Librarian  at  Devon- 
shire House  during  its  progress,  and  he  has  kindly  acknowledged  in  print 
the  assistance  received. 


Under  the  not  very  pleasant-sounding  title  of  The  Open  Sore  of 
Christendom,  the  Rev.  W.  J.  Sexton  writes  of  the  divisions  which  separate 
and  mar  the  Church  of  Christ.  (London  1  J.  &  J.  Bennett,  Ltd.,  ?\  by  5, 
pp.  327,  2s.  6d.)  Among  notices  of  the  Free  Churches  there  is  a  well- 
written  section  on  "  Quakers,  or  the  Society  of  Friends."  The  author 
should  nave  included  Friends  among  the  denominations  with  the  right  of 
presenting  addresses  to  the  1  hi  one  (page  107). 


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An  outside  view  of  a  Friends'  Meeting  appears  m  The  Manchester 
Courier  of  11  November.  The  article  contains  these  poetically  expressed 
sentences  : 

"  Last  of  all,  another  woman  rose  to  her  feet,  and  told  us  that 
certain  words  had  been  ringing  through  her  ears  all  through  the  service. 
These  words  were. :  '  Jesus  Christ  has  no  feet  or  hands  save  yours  and 
mine.'  And  then  she  resumed  her  seat,  and  almost  instantly  there  went 
through  the  congregation  a  faint  shudder  and  stirring,  and  I  knew  that 
the  service  had  come  to  an  end.  Each  of  us  must  have  felt  instinctively 
that  by  the  speaking  of  this  graphic  sentence  the  coping-stone  had  been 
placed  upon  the  bridge  that  joined  the  congregation  to  that  ot  her  world  we 
were  all  seeking.  Only  a  poetic  and  sensitive  people  could  have  seen  that 
there  was  nothing  left  to  be  said.  '  Jesus  Christ  has  no  feet  or  hands  save 
yours  and  mine.'  There  is  sin  and  suffering  in  the  world  ;  it  is  for  you 
and  me  to  replace  sin  with  purity  and  suffering  with  joy." 

The  Meeting  was  Manchester. 


Our  Friend,  Max  Bellows,  of  Gloucester,  has  at  last  concluded  his 
great  work,  and  his  Dictionary  German-English  and  English-German 
has  been  published  by  Longmans,  Green  &  Co.  (/-I  by  5,  pp.  806,  6s.). 
The  plan  of  the  book  is  similar  to  that  of  John  Bellows's  "  French 
Dictionary,"  and  the  printing,  being  done  at  the  well-known  Gloucester 
firm  of  Bellows,  is,  of  course,  beautiful. 


On  behalf  of  the  Friends'  General  Conference  Advancement  Com- 
mittee of  Philadelphia  Y.M.  (Hicksite),  Henry  W.  Wilbur,  140  X.  13th 
Street.  Philadelphia,  has  prepared  a  little  book,  similar  in  style  to  his 
"  Job  Scott,"  entitled  Five  Points  f  rom  Barclay  (6J  by  5,  pp.  80,  50  cents). 
The  propositions  dealt  with  are  Immediate  Revelation,  Universal  and 
Saving  Light,  Ministry,  Worship,  and  Justification. 


Philadclphian  Friend-Publishers  have  again  provided  us  with 
calendars  of  a  Friendly  sort.  The  Biddle  Press  of  1010  Cherry  Street 
has  a  Historical  Quaker  Calendar  for  iqij,  composed  of  six  leaves,  by 
8],  each  with  a  picture.  These  pictures  represent :  George  Fox  refusing 
to  take  the  oath  before  Judge Twisdcn,  with,  extract  from  the  Camb.  jnl.  ; 
Barclay  of  Ury,  with  extract  from  Whittier  ;  Ellwood  reading  to  Milton, 
with  quotation  from  Ellwood 's  "  History"  ;  Elizabeth  Fry  speaking  to 
convicts  bound  for  Australia,  with  some  lines  from  Lewis  Morris ; 
William  Penn  and  Rebecca  Wood,  of  Darby,  with  account  of  the 
incident;  "John  Woolman  and  the  Slave,  with  extract  from  Woolman's 
"Journal."    The  price  is  50  cents,  postage  paid. 

Walter  H.  Jenkins,  139  N.  15th  Street,  has  issued  A  Calendar  of  the. 
People  Called  Quakers,  with  twelve  sheets  15V  by  9:,  and  as  many 
illustrations  ;  five  of  the  pictures  are  reproductions  of  J.  Waiter  West's 
paintings,  there  are  portraits  of  J .  G.  Whittier  and  Lucretia  Mott,  views  of 
the  Meeting  House  at  Fourth  and  Arch  and  the  Logan  homestead  of 
Stenton,"  and  a  copyright  reproduction  of  Violet  Oakley's  "  William 
Penn,  Student  at  Christ  Church."    The  price  is  50  cents  ;  by  mail  60  cents. 


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Dr.  Axon,  of  Manchester,  has  an  article  in  The  Nation  (New  York), 
of  November  7,  on  the  famous  dialogue  between  Dr.  Johnson  and 
Mrs.  Knowles  in  177S;  and  in  a  previous  number  (June  6)  there  is  an 
article  by  R.  W.  Kelsey,  of  Haverford,  on  "The  Originator  of  the 
Federal  Idea." 


There  are  several  very  interesting  articles  from  a  historical  point  of 
view  in  Tenth  Month's  Friends'  Quarterly  Examiner.  Ernest  Jones,  of 
Kendal,  describes  the  "Threshing  Meeting'''  of  early  Quakerism,  and 
queries  : — 

"  Is  there  not  a  real  danger  that  modern  Quakerism  may  admire 
these  early  Friends  without  sharing  their  travail,  without  entering  into 
fe^ow^hip  with  them  in  their  self  surrender,  their  allegiance  to  the 
demands  which  God  made  on  them  ?  Is  it  unfair  to  say  that  in  many  a 
Quarterly  Meeting  there  is  very  little  analogous  to  the  early  history  of  the 
Society  ?  " 

W.  C.  Braithwaite  makes  live  again  an  ancient  account  of  three  pounds 
paid  out  for  the  horses  of  certain  travelling  Friends  as  they  passed 
through  Banbury  in  Oxfordshire  (1677  and  1678).  After  giving  some 
particulars  of  the  Friends  named,  he  adds  : — 

"  It  shows  the  extraordinary  richness  of  Quaker  historical  materials 
that  you  should  be  able  to  take  a  random  page  of  accounts  in  an  old 
minute  book,  and  call  back  to  life  the  personalities  of  nearly  every  one  who 
is  mentioned,  besides  identifying  in  several  cases  the  particular  journey 
on  which  the  Friend  was  engaged,  whose  horse  required  to  be  stabled  and 
shod  in  the  town  of  Banbury.  I  suppose  a  like  commentary  could  be 
constructed  with  little  difficulty  from  many  another  page  of  forbidding - 
looking  accounts." 

Isaac  Sharp  occupies  eleven  pages  with  a  very  appreciative  review 
of  Dr.  Jorns's  "  Studien  vibcr  die  Sozialpolitik  der  Quaker." 


The  negro  problem  in  America  has  received  further  treatment  in  a 
thesis  recently  written  by  Richard  R.  Wright,  Jun.,  Research  Fellow 
in  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  entitled  The  Negro  in  Pennsylvania, 
A  Study  in  Economic  History  [g\  by  6£,  pp.  250,  $1.50).  The  author 
writes  : — 

"  The  founders  of  Pennsylvania  sanctioned  Negro  servitude,  stating 
in  very  clear  language  the  handicap  under  which  Negroes  must  live 
and  labor  (p.  6) — Slavery  reached  its  height  in  Pennsylvania  between 
1750  and  1763. — In  1775,  2,000  slaves  were  held. — On  the  whole  it  may 
be  said  that  as  compared  with  other  colonies,  the  slavery  which  existed 
in  Pennsylvania  was  mild  (p.  8)." 

The  history  of  the  attitude  of  Friends  towards  slavery  is  traced  in 
considerable  detail,  and  the  Negro  is  then  considered  under  such 
relations  as  Occupation,  Business  Enterprise,  Education,  Crime,  Poverty, 
and  Social  Progress. 

W.  B.  Selbie,  M.A.,  D.D.,  Principal  of  Mansfield  College,  Oxford,  Las 
written  a  delightful  Iittlebook  on  Nonconformity  :  its  Origin  and  Progress, 


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in  the  Home  University  Library  of  Modern  Knowledge,  published  in 
London  by  Williams  &  Norgafce,  and  in  New  York  by  Henry  Holt  k 
Compmy  (6-J-  by  4£,  pp.  256,  cloth,  is.  net).  When  the  history  reaches 
our  period,  there  is  a  chapter  on  "  The  Quakers  "  (iS  pp.),  which  contains 
a  returns  of  their  rise  and  early  history,  but  it  is  curious  that  throughout 
the  chapters  headed  Reaction  and  Decline,  Revival,  Progress  and 
Consolidation,  the  Society  of  Friends  is  not  once  mentioned.  We  are 
told  (p.  198),  that,  at  the  beginning  of  the  nineteenth  century.  Noncon- 
formists "  could  not  be  married  in  their  own  churches,  nor  be  buried,  save 
with  the  rites  of  the  Church  of  England,"  and  on  p.  211,  that  before  the 
Burials  Act  of  1852  "  a  few  chapels  had  small  private  burial-places 
attached  to  them,''  but  that  otherwise,  "in  most  places,  when  Noncon- 
formisfs  had  to  hury  their  dead,  it  was  with  the  help  of  the  clergyman, 
and  under  the  rites  of  an  alien  Church," — but  how  about  the  hundreds 
of  Quaker  burial  grounds  in  all  parts  of  the  United  Kingdom  ?  and  the 
many  Quaker  marriages  and  burials  constantly  taking  place  through  the 
centuries,  all  entirely  free  from  State  control  as  regards  the  religious 
ceremony  ?  Elizabeth  Fry  is  mentioned  (p.  194),  and  John  Bright 
(p.  202),  but  there  is  no  mention  of  the  religious  communion  to  which 
they  belonged.  Joseph  Lancaster  is  called  "  a  young  Quaker  "  (p.  204), 
but  this  is  the  only  hint  that  Quakers  even  existed,  to  say  nothing  of 
their  philanthropic  and  religious  activit}-,  during  the  eighteenth  and 
nineteenth  centuries.  It  is  time  for  the  Rowntree  history  to  teach 
historians  the  facts. 

The  author,  in  his  last  chapter,  has  a  few  words  about  the  present 
and  future  of  the  Society  (the  italics  are  not  in  the  book)  : — 

"  The  Quakers  remain  a  kind  of  spiritual  elect,  clinghig  as  they  do  to 
the  doctrine  of  the  inner  light.  They  have  an  influence  out  of  ail  pro- 
portion to  their  numbers.  Their  unwavering  testimony  in  the  cause  of 
peace,  and  their  bold  experiments  in  social  service,  have  put  all  the 
Churches  in  their  debt.  There  are  signs,  too,  of  a  revival  among  them, 
led  by  their  younger  men  "  (p.  247). 

Leonard  Doncaster's  contribution  to  the  Cambridge  University  Press 
Manuals  of  Science  and  Literature — Heredity  in  the  Light  0/  Recent 
Research,  has  now  run  to  a  second  edition,  after  having  first  appeared  in 
1910,  and  having  been  reprinted  in  1911.  A  chapter  on  "  Heredity  and 
Sex  "  has  been  added.  L.  Doncastcr  (of  Sheffield)  is  a  Fellow  and 
Tutor  of  King's  College,  Cambridge. 


Hcadley  Brothers  have  prepared  a  portfolio  containing  five  Quaker 
Pictures  by  J.  Walter  West,  R.W.S.,  which  they  have  on  sale  at  140, 
Bishopsgate,  London ,  for  21s.  the  set.  The  photogravures  are  T he  T horny 
Path  of  Knowledge,  A  Weighty  Consideration,  Lavender  Time,  arid  The 
Dropprd  Stitch,  and  the  colour  print  is  A  Silent  Meeting.  1  hese  are  all 
beautiful  reproductions,  especially  the  last  named,  and  we  are  sure  many 
of  our  readers  will  be  glad  to  obtain  this  set.  Walter  West  is  a  weii-known 
Friend- artist,  living  near  London.  Spccimcnts  of  his  work  may  be  seen  at 
Headley  Brothers,  and  in  D. 


38     FRIENDS  IN  CURRENT  LITERATURE 


The  Friends'  First-day  School  Association,  15,  Devonshire  Street, 
London,  E.C.,  has  prepared,  in  connection  with  the  magazine  "  Teachers 
and  Taught,"  a  series  of  Graded  Lessen  Courses  for  1913-  There  is  (i.)  A 
Year's  Course  of  Nature  and  Home  Talks,  (ii.)  The  Beginners'  Course, 
(iii.)  The  Primary  Course,  (iv.)  The  Junior  Course,  (v.)  The  Intermediate 
Course,  and  (vi.)  The  Senior  Course.  This  is  still  the  only  complete 
graded  scheme  published  on  this  side  of  the  Atlantic.  Friends  have 
been  leading  the  way  in  this  matter  for  some  years,  and  many  non- 
Quaker  Sunday  Schools  are  using  the  lessons,  and  also  the  F.F.D.S.A. 
paper  "  Teachers  and  Taught  ."    Apply  to  Headley  Brothers. 


The  disestablishment  question  in  Wales  has  been  fully  treated  in 
The  aftmfi  in  Wales,  by  Anthony  W.  Dell,  B.Sc,  a  son  of  Louis  Dell,  of 
London.  Anthony  Dell  is  a  journalist  by  profession,  and  now  on  the 
staff  of  "  The  Daily  Citizen.5'  He  spent  some  time  at  the  Caen  University, 
specially  studying  history  end  literature.  His  book  is  the  result  of 
prolonged  research  and  enquiry,  and  appears  to  state  a  clear  case  for 
disestablishment  and  disendowment,  neither  of  which,  in  the  author's 
opinion,  will  work  any  harm  to  the  Episcopal  Church  in  Wales.  Towards 
the  close  there  are  useful  references  to  other  cases  of  disestablishment 
(Westminster  :  King  &  Son,  7^  by  5,  pp.  83,  6d.  net). 


There  is  mention  of  George  Fox's  imprisonment  in  Cornwall  in  an 
address  given  by  Alfred  F.  Robbins,  of  London,  a  native  of  Launcestonr 
to  a  gathering  in  this  town  to  commemorate  the  Bi-centenafy oi 
Congregationalism.    See  The  Weekly  News  (Cornwall,  November^ 30). 


The  Sunday  School  Association  (Unitarian)  of  Essex  Street,  London, 
W.C.,  has  published  a  short  biography  of  Isaac  T.  Hopper  of 
Pennsylvania,  at  the  price  of  sixpence,  written  by  Henry  Raw'Uns,  M.A. 
The  title  runs  A  Hero  of  the  Anti-Slavery  Movement.  The  xttory  of 
Isaac  Hopper.  The  frontispiece  is  a  portrait  of  Isaac,  taken  fro 
standard  biography  by  L.  Maria  Child,  1853. 


Several  attempts  have  been  made  to  establish  a  school  for  Friends' 
children  in  Tasmania.  Thomas  Mason  kept  school  at  Hobart  from  1847 
to  1851,  and  in  1355  Margaret  Beale  opened  one  for  girls.  Frederick  and 
Rachel  Mackie  conducted  a  mixed  school  from  1857  to  1861,  and  later,  for 
a  short  time  Lydia  Wood,  a  Croydon  teacher,  had  charge  of  a  few  children 
in  Liverpool  Street,  Hobart.  In  18S4,  proceedings  were  set  on  foot  which 
resulted  in  the  establishment  in  Hobart  of  the  present  School,  in  1887, 
mider  the  care  of  Samuel  and  Margaret  Clemes.  There  were  thirl}--  three 
scholars  at  the  opening.  Premises  were  purchased  at  Hobartville,  on  the 
northern  boundary  of  the  city,  and  various  additions  have  since  been 
made  to  the  original  buildings.  In  1903  there  were  206  scholars  on  the 
roll  and  in  Seventh  Month  last  248,  of  whom  54  were  boarders;  1,250 
children  have  passed  through  the  School. 


FRIENDS  IN  CURRENT  LITERATURE  39 


These  and  other  interesting  particulars  may  be  read  in  a  pamphlet 
entitled  Rise  and  Progress  of  the  Friends'  High  School,  Hobart,  being  a 
paper  read  at  the  General  Meeting  of  Australian  Friends  held  at  Hobart, 
in  Tenth  Month,  19 12. 


A  valuable  Chronological  Table  of  Facts  relating  to  the  Work  of  the 
Friends*  Foreign  Mission  Association,  1827-1912,  has  just  been  issued 
(London  :  15,  Devonshire  Street,  Bishopsgate).  The  first  date  records 
an  address  by  Henry  Townley,  a  Missionary  in  Calcutta,  to  Friends,  on 
behalf  of  the  heathen,  and  the  last,  the  death  of  Henry  Stanley  Newman, 
first  and  only  Honorary  Secretary. 


The  latest  issue  of  the  Bulletin  0;  Friends7  Historical  Society  of 
Philadelphia,  vol.  iv.,  no.  3  (Editor  :  Allen  C.  Thomas,  Flaverford,  Pa.), 
has  a  series  of  articles  dealing  with  old-time  American  Quakerism,  including 
Thomas  Penn's  Walking  Purchase,  1737,  by  W.  W.  Dewees  ;  Certificate 
of  Mary  Rogers,  169S,  by  M.  Ethel  Crawshaw  ;  and  A  Catalogue  of  Public 
Friends  who  died  in  Pa.,  1684,  etc.,  from  a  MS.  in  D.  ;  also  an  Address 
of  Canadian  Friends  to  Lord  Durham  in  1838. 


The  Literary  Year  Book  is  a  useful  book  for  writers  and  publishers 
to  have  at  hand.  The  fust  part  contains  an  alphabetical  list  of  authors, 
which  includes  the  following  Friends:  J.  Gilbert  Baker,  H.  B.  Binns, 
William  C.  Braithwaite.  George  B.  Burgin,  C.  Fell  Smith,  Sir  Edward  Fry, 
J.  Rendel  Harris,  Thomas  Hodgkin,  E.  V.  Lucas,  Sir  A.  E.  Pease,  Norman 
Penney,  Joseph  Rowntree,  Henry  M.  Wallis,  and  John  Watson,  and 
Part  II.  has  a  list  of  Libraries,  among- them  appearing  the  Devonshire 
House  Reference  Library,  and  later  come  Societies  and  Clubs,  Typo- 
graphical terms,  etc.  (London  :  Ouseley,  y\-  by  5,  pp.  liv.  +  37S  +  264 
+  176,  6s.  net.) 


In  The  Crania  for  November  23rd  (Cambridge:  Spalding)  there 
is  a  leading  article  by  Philip  J.  Baker,  the  noted  athlete,  son  of  Joseph 
Allen  Baker,  M.P.,  011  "  Olympiads  and  the  Noble  English  Press." 


In  the  last  volume  of  The  Journal,  (p.  70),  appeared  a  report  of  a 
conference  on  education  in  Syria.  Another  was  held  in  April  last  and  an 
account  of  the  proceedings  has  reached  us  from  Marshall  N.  Fox,  who  is 
a  member  of  the  Committee  of  the  new  Missionary  Educational  Union  in 
Syria  and  Palestine.  The  report  can  be  obtained  from  the  American 
Press,  Beyrout,  Syria,  for  a  franc,  post  free. 

The  Annual  Report  for  iqii  of  the  Chief  Medical  Officer  of  the  Board  of 
Education  has  just  been  issued — a  volume  of  334  pages.  The  Report  is 
addressed  by  Sir  George  Newman  to  the  Right  Hon.  Joseph  Albert 
1'ease,  M.P.,  P resident  of  the  Board  of  Education.    It  is  interesting  to 


4o     FRIENDS  IN  CURRENT  LITERATURE 


notice  the  official  connection  between  tv.  o  members  of  the  Society  of 
Friends,  and  that  Sir  George  concludes  his  Report  with  the  words,  "  I 
have  the  honour  to  be,  Sir,  your  obedient  Servant  "  ! 


Books  thai  Count.  A  Dictionary  of  Standard  Boohs,  edited  by 
W.  Forbes  Gray  (London:  Black,  ~\  by  5,  pp.  xx.  +  630  columns  +  lviii., 
5s.  net)  has  recently  appeared.  It  is  likely  to  prove  a  very  useful  volume 
to  the  student  of  literature,  at  least  if  other  sections  are  superior  to  that 
assigned  to  Friends'  literature,  which  is  both  meagre  and  misleading. 
In  col.  4G0,  under  "  Quakers  (Friends),"  we  have  five  books — Cunning- 
ham's "Quakers,"  1868 ;  the  first  Swarthmore  lecture;  Rowntree's 
"  Faith  and  Practice "  ;  Turner's  "  Quakers,"  1912  ;  and  John 
Woolman's  "  Journal,"  1  -? S 3 ;  and  to  the  last-named  is  the  astonishing 
intelligence  that  it  is  "  O.p."  =out  of  print  !  The  very  full  index  contains 
mention  of  books  by  Henry  B.  Binns,  Francis  B.  Gummere,  Thomas 
Hodgkin,  Rufus  M.  Jones,  Sevan.  Lean,  \V.  Blair  Neat  by.  Sir  George 
Newman,  Frederic  L.  Paxson,  Edwin  D.  Starbuck,  Silvanus  P.  Thompson, 
and  other  Friends. 


A  comprehensive  description  of  the  various  schemes  of  industrial 
organization  and  welfare  work  in  connection  with  the  famous  cocoa 
firm  of  Cadbury  at  Bournville,  Birmingham,  has  been- written  by  Edward 
Cadbury  and  published  under  the  title  of  Experiments  in  Industrial 
Organization  (London  :  Longmans,  8  by  5].  pp.  296.  5s.  net).  The  book 
is  full  of  most  interesting  material  and  suggestion  for  the  industrial 
reformer,  as  is  evident  by  reference  to  the  Index,  in  which,  e.g.,  under 
Apprentices  there  are  sixteen  sub-headings;  under  Fire  Risks,  ten; 
under  Wages,  thirteen ;  and  under  single  headings,  as  e.g.,  Dancing, 
Effect  of,  there  are  six  entries  ;  Change  of  Work,  seven  ;  Punishments, 
eight. 


The  first  part  of  the  Catalogue  de  la  Bibliothcqv.e  de  VInstitut  Nobel 
Korvcgien  has  been  received,  (Kristiania  :  Aschehoug  ;  London  : 
Williams  &  Norgate ;  New-  York  :  Putnam,  10}  by  8,  238  columns, 
printed  on  right-hand  page  only).  It  consists  of  a  list  of  books,  etc., 
dealing  with  the  Peace  question — Ljtteratiire  Pacifiste — or,  in  other 
words,  it  forms  a  "  Bibliographic  du  Mouvement  de  la  Paix."  An 
Appendix  to  Section  XV.  (La  Paix  et  les  Cioyances  religieuses) 
gives  titles  of  books  treating  of  Quaker  history,  biography,  and  doctrine, 
including  the  issues  of  the  Rowntree  series  and  also  the  Friends  Ancient 
and  Modem  Series.  The  names  of  many  Friends  appear  in  the  Index 
to  authors.  The  Nobel  Institute  of  Norway  was  founded  in  1904. 
Further  portions  of  the  Catalogue  are  promised — of  books  treating  of 
international  rights,  public  and  private,  modern  political  history,  and 
social  science.  The  library  can  be  used,  so  far  as  possible,  by  all 
nationalities. 

N  O K MAN  P E X M  K  Y. 


(gtofcfc  <xnh  Qttettee 

The  two  illustrations  here  reproduced  are  taken  from  a  book  of 
184  pages,  written  by  Francis  Bugg  (1640-1724  ?),  a  seceder  from 
Quakerism.  It  is  entitled  Quakerism  Drooping,  and  its  Cause  Sinking  : 
Clearly  Manifested  from  divers  Conferences,  and  other  Proceedings  with  the 
Quakers,  at  Banbury,  Sleeford,  Colchester,  and  Mildenhall.  By  a  Servant 
of  the  Church,  F.  Bugg,  1703. 


A  History  of  Swarthmoor 
Meeting  House. — The  recent 
ptirc'iiase  of  S"  r.rthraoor  Kali 
having  attracted  much  attention, 
our  readers  may  be  interested  to 
know  of  a  pamphlet  by  the  late 
Harper  Gaythorpe,  of  Furness, 
entitled  Sivarthntoor  Meeting-house, 
Ulversion  ;  a  Quaker  Stronghold, 
which  can  be  obtained  for  one 
shilling  and  sixpence.  It  consists 
of  forty-eight  pages  of  reading 
matter  and  four  illustrations. 
Applications  for  copies  may  be 
made  to  the  Li  brarian,  Devonshire 
House,  London,  E.C. 

MS.  Diary  of  Ann  Young. — 
Information  wanted  of  the  loca- 
tion of  the  MS.  Diary  of  Ann 
Young  (1707-1790),  nie  Pole,  wife 
of  Christopher  Young  and  aunt  of 
Dr.  Thomas  Pole.  The  Diary  is 
mentioned  in  a  letter  from  William 
Deck,  written  in  1894. 


Friends  in  New  Brunswick 
and  Nova  Scotia. — It  is  said  that 
in  the  days  of  the  Revolution  some 
Friends  settled  at  Beaver  Habor, 
N.B.,  to  avoid  military  duty. 
Were  there  any  official  Meetings 
of  Friends  in  either  N.B.  or  N.S. 
about  this  time.  1 77 3- 177 5  ? 
Where  can  information  be  ob- 
tained respecting  Friends  in 
Canada,  prior  to  the  eatablish- 


recorded  in  Benjamin  Cody's 
Account-  of  the  Settlement  of 
Friends  in  Canada,  printed  in 
1903  ? 


The  Will  of  Barbara  Blaug- 
done. — Abstract  of  the  will  of 
Barbara  Blaugdone  dated  "  this 
sixth  day  of  the  moneth  called 
January  I/or.*** 

I  Barbara  Blaugdone  late  of  the 
city  of  Bristoll  now  of  London 
widow  being  infirm  of  body, 
&c.  To  the  child  or  children  of 
my  granddaur  Ann  Gum1  £100 
at  21  or  marriage.  I  forgive  6c 
remitt  to  William  Ginn  husband 
of  my  grand aur  Ann  Ginn  £ioo 

1  Barbara  Blaugdone  died  on 
the  25th  of  Ninth  Mouth,  1704, 
aged  ninety-five.  The  date  of 
death  ('*  c.  1G91  ")  given  in 
Tke  Journal,  ix.  103,  is  incorrect. 
This  was  supposed  from  the  date 
of  A  n  Account  of  her  Travels,  1691", 
but  the  Account  is  autobio- 
graphical. 

2  In  1699,  Ann  Watts,  daughter 
of  John  Watts,  of  Bristol,  married 
WiJiiam  Ginn,  turner,  of  London. 
At  least  six  of  their  children  pre- 
deceased them,  several  being 
carried  off  by  small- pox  at  tender- 
age.  Ann  Ginn,  "  wife  of  William, 
watchmaker,"  died  in  1742,  aged 
sixty-nine,  and  William  Ginn, 
"  of  St.  Saviour's,  Soul  r<  v.  ark," 
died  in  1750.  aged  seventy-eight. 
John  Watts  aforesaid  had  married 
Mary  Blaugdone,  ox  Bristol,  in 


42 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES 


that  is  due  to  me  from  him  upon 
bond  &  all  interest. 

I  give  to  my  brother  Richard 
Brock  of  Bristol!  ^5  p. a.  during 
his  life  to  be  paid  quarterly. 

To  Thomas  Callowhill  of  Bristoll 
merchant  &  James  Freman  of 
same  city  Apothecary  ^15  to 
dispose  as  they  think  fitt. 

To  the  child  or  children  of  John 
Shecpard  of  New  York  if  he  hath 
any  living  at  my  decease  ^50, 
equally  amongst  them,  &c, 

To  George  Whitehead  & 
Thomas  Lower  both  of  London 
£5  apeece  for  their  own  use. 

To  William  Walker  son  in  law 
to  John  Obee  of  London  50s  at 
the  expiration  of  his  apprentice- 
ship &  to  his  brother  Benjamin 
50s  at  2i. 

To  Mary  Walker  sister  to  sd 
William  Walker  &  Benjamin 
50s  at  21  or  marriage  and  50s 
to  Ruth  Obee  at  21  or  marriage. 

I  order  my  esix  to  pay  same 
to  John  Obee  their  father  for  their 
use. 

To  my  neece  Susannah  Nevet 
of  Parke  Place  near  Westminster 
/50,  and  after  her  decease  she 
to  give  out  of  s^  £50  to  her  daur 
Pawley  widow  £10,  &  to  her 
daur  Ann  Nevet  £10,  &  £10  to 
Elizabeth  Nevet  in  all  /30. 

To  Jane  Edwards  daur  of  my 
loving  friend  Thomas  Edwards 
of  Bristoll  a  guinea. 

To  my  loving  friend  sd  James 
Freeman  a  guinea. 

To  my  friend  Nathaniel  Marks 
of  London  a  guinea. 

To  sd  Thomas  Callowhill  a 
guinea  &  appoint  i&  friends 
Thomas  Callowhill  James  Freeman 
and  Nathaniel  Marks  to  be  over- 
seers. 

Rest  of  my  estate  to  my  grand- 


!    daur  Ann  Ginn  wife  of  sa  William 
Ginn  of  London  [&  make  her] 

j    sole  exiI 

witns  WM  Martin  cl[erk]  to 
Mr  Springett,  Tuo.  Cowper, 
Benjamin  Bourn®. 

Proved  at  London  13  Dec. 
1704.  by  the  affirmation  or  solemn 
declaration    of    Ann    Ginn  the 

I    executrix.    P.C.C.    (248  Ash.) 


j  Quaker  Associations  in  St. 
I  Paul's  Cathedral. — In  the  Life 
j  of  Rev.  R.  H.  Bar  ham  (of  Ingoldsby 
Legends  fame)  by  his  son  (2  Vols., 
1870)  there  is  in  Vol  L  (p.  175), 
in  connection  with  the  funeral  of 
Sir  Thomas  Lawrence  in  1830,  a 
"  plan  of  vault  "  in  the  crypt  of 
St.  Paul's.  The  vault  of  Sir 
Thomas  is  contiguous  to  that  of 
Benjamin  West,  P.R. A. /formerly 
a  Quaker.  Adjoining  West's 
grave  is  that  of  George  Dance, 
R.A.,  architect  to  the  City  of 
London,  the  builder  of  Newgate, 
St.  Luke's  Hospital,  the  front  of 
Guildhall,  etc.,  and  celebrated  also 
for  his  unique  portraits  of  eminent 
men  of  his  day.  Dance's  wife  was 
Mary,  daughter  of  Thomas  and 
Mary  Gurnell,  Friends  of  Ealing. 
Then,  contiguous  to  Dance's  vault 
is  that  of  John  Opie,  R.A.,  whose 
!  second  wife  was  the  celebrated 
i  author  and  Friend,  Amelia  Opie. 
Other  famous  architects  and 
artists  lie  around,  such  as  Wren, 
Fuseli,  Dawe,  and  Reynolds. — 
J.  J.  Green,  Godwyn  Lodge, 
Hastings. 


Richard  Gotley. — The  Richard 
Gotby,  alias  Do.vell,  of  Bristol, 
mentioned    in    The  Journal 
(ix.    194),   should,   I   think,  be 
j    Richard  Goiley  of  the  Castle  Prc- 
!    cincts,  Bristol.    He,  who  was  the 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES 


43 


son  of  John  Gotley,  and  appar- 
ently Jone,  his  widow  (who  was 
buried    as   a   Friend   in  16S4), 

married  firstly  Hester  ,  who 

was  buried  in  1678,  having  had 
issue,  apparently,  Elizabeth, 
buried  in  1674,  and  perhaps 
Hester,  who  may  however  be  a 
daughter  of  the  second  marriage. 

Richard  Gotley  married 
secondly,  in  1679,  Rachel  Doleing, 
daughter  to  James,  and  sister 
An-°  Voicing  (or  Dowlen), 
who  married  in  16S2,  Robert 
Ruddle,  of  Bristol  and  London, 
merchant,  friend  of,  and  prob- 
ably partner  with  John  Marsh, 
of  Bristol  and  London,  merchant, 
whose  daughter  Ruth  married 
the  illustrious  Dr.  Richard  Mead, 
Physician  to  George  II.,  etc. 
Richard  Gotley  had  apparently 
four  sons  (one  of  whom  married), 
with  two  other  daughters  besides 
those  named.  Of  these  Hester 
married,  in  1706,  William  Arch, 
of  London,  goldsmith,  of  the 
publishing  family  allied  to  the 
Fells  of  Swarthmoor  Hall  ;  and 
Mary  married,  in  1707,  John  Allen, 
of  Bristol.  The  last  entry  speaks 
of  Richard  Gotley  as  late  of 
Bristol.  Rachel  Gotley,  then  of 
St.  Philip's  parish,  Bristol,  was 
buried  in  J704,  and  Richard  in 
I7°5>  but  the  latter  entry  may 
possibly  relate  to  the  son  Richard, 
born  in  1680.  I  am  informed 
by  Alfred  Neave  Brayshaw  that 
Richard  Gotley  was  in  trouble  at 
Bristol  for  the  countenance  he 
gave  to  ball-baiting  !  Certainly  a 
most  un-quakerly  action !  This 
would  still  further  go  to  prove 
that  the  "  Richard  Gotby,  alias 
Powell,"  who  was  in  trouble  in 
America  and  oil  his  return  issued 
a  paper  of  condemnation  against 


himself  was  identical  with  the 
Richard  Gotley,  of  bull-baiting 
propensities,  but  who  evidently 
became  a  reformed  character  later, 
and  married  into  an  honourable 
Quaker  family.  One  wonders 
whether  his  alias  of  Dowell  had 
anything  in  common  with  the 
name  of  his  second  wife  Dowlen. 
— Joseph  J.  Green,  Godwyn 
Lodge,  Hastings. 


Daniel  Quare  and  the 
Barometer. — I  am  glad  to  be 
able  to  answer  Wilfred  Irwin's 
question,  at  least  in  part.  In 
the  sale  catalogue  of  Benjamin 
Furiy's  Library,  entitled  Biblio- 
theca  Furliana  sive  Catakgus 
Librorum,  Rotterdam,  1714*  is 
an  account  (pages  347-3 52)»  of  the 
Curiosiiates  in  Dutch.  The  fifth 
lot  may  be  rendered  in  English: 
"  Curious  new  English  barometer, 
of  beautiful  nut-wood  and  gilded- 
brass  foot,  either  to  stand  or  to 
hang,  made  by  Daniel  Quare" 
Other  curiosities  mentioned  were 
a  gift  to  the  Quaker.  Benjamin 
Furly,  formerly  of  Colchester, 
from  the  Princess  Elizabeth  of  the 
Hague,  and  apparently  other  gifts 
from  Baron  F.  M.  Van  Helmont ; 
a  book-case  is  also  named  as  the 
invention  of  John  Locke,  the  friend 
of  Furly. — Joseph  J.  Green, 
Godwyn  Lodge,  Hastings. 


Daniel  Quare  axd  the 
Barometer.  —  Daniel  Quare 
(1648-1723)  was  admitted  as  a 
brother  of  the  Ciockmakers' 
Company  1671,  and  served  as 
Master  in  1708.  His  establish- 
ment for  many  years  before  his 
death  was  at  "  King's  Arms," 
Exchange    Alley,    London.  He 


44  NOTES  AND 

was  a  horologist  celebrated  for  his 
fine  work,  and  he  invented  the  first 
repeating  watches.  F.  J.  Britten 
in  his  Old  Clocks  and  Watches  and 
their  Makers  (1904,  London), 
saj'S  of  his  barometer  :  "  In  1695 
Quare  obtained  a  patent  for  a 
portable  weather  glass,  and  six 
or  seven  instruments  made  by 
him  according  to  his  specifications  j 
are  known  to  cxisu.  One  of  them 
is  in  the  United  Service  Institute ; 
a%o*her  b^ohrrs  to  Mr.  C.  F. 
Bell,  is  by  his  favour  shown  in  j 
Fig.  434  "  (p.  296).  "  The  case  is 
of  walnut ;  three  urns  surmount 
the  head,  and  two  of  them  when 
rotated  move  pointers  on  the 
scale,  which  is  of  gilt  metal,  richly 
engraved.  But  the  contrivance 
for  which  the  patent  was  granted 
consists  of  a  pad  to  cover  the  j 
bottom  of  the  tube.  The  cistern 
is  of  ivory,  and  attached  to  the 
bottom  of  it  is  a  brass  nut, 
through  which  a  threaded  rod 
passes  ;  on  the  lower  extremity  of 
the  rod. is  a  knob,  and  the  upper 
carries  a  pad.  If  the  barometer 
is  turned  upside  down  until  the 
tube  is  full  of  quicksilver  and 
the  screwed  rod  turned  for  the 
pad  to  block  the  tube,  the  instru- 
ment may  be  carried  about  in  any 
position." — H.  C.  Campion,  Jun., 
Media,  Pa.,  U.S.A. 


Thomas  Clarkson. — In  the 
long  Obituary  notice  in  the  Gen- 
tleman's Magazine  (1846,  ii.  pp. 
5,42-6)  it  is  stated  that  Clarkson's 
uncle  was  Arthur  Biddell,  of 
Piayford,  who  was  perhaps  Ins 
mother's  brother.  But  Lives,  by 
Taylor  (1839  and  1876)  and  Elmes 


QUERIES 

(1854)  might  answer  this  ques- 
tion.— J.  J.  Green. 


Friends  in  East  Anglia,  1723. 
—  Ely  Episcopal  Records,  by  A. 
Gibbons  (1891),  p.  48.— B.5. 
Quaker's  Roll  1723. — A  large  roll 
of  20  skins  containing  the  sig- 
natures of  Quakers  under  Parishes 
to  the  Declaration  prescribed  by 
Statute  Geo.  I.  "  For  the  security 
of  His  Majesty's  person  and 
government  and  the  succession  of 
the  Crown  in  the  heirs  of  the  late 
Princess  Sophia  being  protestants 
and  for  the  extinguishing  of  the 
pretended  prince  of  Wales,  &c." 

This  roll  contains,  at  a  rough 
estimate,  between  four  and  five 
thousand  signatures. 

Hats  in  Church  (ix.  171). — T. 
Lister  Godlee  has  shewn  us  a 
fifteenth  century  MS.  Dutch 
Missal,  in  which,  among  the  minia- 
tures, is  pictured  a  funeral  scene 
in  which  the  mourners  stand 
hatted  before  the  bier  and  the 
ecclesiastic.  He  also  sends  the 
following  extract  from  Through 
Holland,  by  Charles  W.  Wood, 
1877,  p.  104  : 

"  I  noticed  here  [the  great 
church  at  Haarlem]  as  elsewhere 
the  very  small  amount  of  rever- 
ence Dutchmen  pay  to  their 
churches  when  they  enter  them. 
Unless  it  is  Sunday  and  service 
is  being  held,  they,  for  the  most 
part,  never  think  of  uncovering 
their  heads  but  stroll  through  the 
aisles  or  sit  down  to  listen  to  the 
music  without  once  taking  off 
their  bats." 


See  p.  3  of  cover  for  notice  of  proposed  new  work. 


Vol,  X.  No,  2  Fourth  Month  (April), 

THE  JOURNAL 

OF  THE 

FRIENDS'  HISTORICAL  SOCIETY 


For  Table  of  Contents  see  page  two  of  cover 

(jJUntwiffcencee  of 

Concluded  from  f.  II 


WT  ma}'  be  interesting  to  recall  a  few  of  the  more 
I  obvious  "  peculiarities  "  of  our  little  community 
%Jf  at  Edinburgh  as  they  strike  one  now  in  looking  back 
some  sixty  years  or  more.  Of  course  the  separa- 
tion of  men  and  women  in  Meeting  was  rigorously  carried 
out  ;  and  it  used  to  be  one  of  the  most  trying  of  the 
young  doorkeeper's  duties  to  shepherd  "  people  of  the 
world  "  who  came  in  to  Meeting,  often  men  and  women 
together,  safely  to  their  respective  sides.  Strangers 
frequently  strayed  in  at  the  open  gateway  under  "the 
Penn  "  in  the  Pleasants,  and  after  looking  curiously  at 
the  cat-haunted  graveyard,  advanced  with  cautious 
footsteps  up  to  the  very  door  of  the  Meeting  House.  It 
was  the  doorkeeper's  duty,  when  he  heard  the  crunching 
sounds  of  feet  on  the  gravel,  to  slip  out  and  accost  the 
strangers  with  a  courteous  enquiry  whether  they  would 
like  to  enter. 

In  those  days  there  were  no  gravestones.  These, 
with  the  simple  record  of  name,  date  of  death  and 
age,  were  first  "sanctioned  in  1850,  to  the  no  small 
concern  of  the  more  conservative  Friends.  In  the  back 
portion  of  the  premises  there  still  reposed,  a  gruesome 
object,  a  large  cofhn-shaped  cage  formed  of  strong  iron 
bars.    This    was    provided   with    long    spikes  which 

Vol.  x.— nr. 

MS 


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OLD  EDINBURGH  FRIENDS 


descended  deeply  into  the  ground.  When  the  coffin  was 
placed  in  it,  the  lid  was  brought  down  and  securely 
padlocked.  By  this  means  a  stop  was  put  to  the  attempts 
of  the  "  body  snatchers,"  who  made  a  regular  trade  of 
providing  "  subjects  "  for  the  Professor  of  Anatomy  at 
the  College.  After  a  certain  period  the  cage  was  removed 
and  was  laid  aside  until  it  was  again  required.  I  have 
a  receipt  for  £i  us.  6d.,  signed  by  David  Doull  as  Regis- 
trar of  Burials,  for  the  use  of  the  "  safe/'  as  it  was  called, 
in  1 831.  How  much  later  it  was  in  use,  I  know  not.  A 
Friend  who  saw7  it  used,  when  as  a  very  tiny  child  she  was 
present  at  a  funeral  in  1835,  remarks,  it  was  "  a  ghastly 
business,  but  not  so  bad,  my  father  said,  as  what  he  had 
seen— an  opening  made  in  the.  coffin  and  quicklime 
poured  into  the  chest.  Anatomical  skill  was  dearly 
bought  then  ;  the  Burke  and  Hare  stories  of  our  infancy 
were  more  alarming  than  any  ghost  tales."  At  Aberdeen, 
when,  in  1830,  the  grave  of  a  Friend  was  opened  so  that 
the  remains  of  the  Friend's  husband  might  be  laid  beside 
her,  it  was  discovered  that  the  grave  had  been  rifled,  and 
an  empty  coffin  only  remained.  After  that,  I  believe 
there  were  no  more  interments  in  Friends'  Burial  Ground 
there. 

In  the  principal  chuj-chyards  of  Edinburgh,  and  no 
doubt  elsewhere  also,  watchhouses  were  erected  where  a 
night  watchman  was  installed.  The  buildings  still  remain, 
though  the  need,  for  them  has  happily  ceased. 

As  the  only  means  of  lighting  the  Meeting  House  in 
an  evening  was  with  tallow  candles,  the  second  meeting 
on  First-day  was  held  in  the  afternoon,  for  several  months 
in  the  year,  which  perhaps  accounted  for  the  answer  to  the 
Query  as  to  the  due  and  decorous  holding  of  meetings 
being  generally  qualified  by  the  clause  "  with  the  excep- 
tion of  some  appearance  of  drowsiness  at  times."5  When, 
as  occasionally  happened,  a  meeting  for  the  public  was 
held  in  the  evening  in  the  Meeting  House  "  at  the  request 
of  a  Ministering  Friend  from  a  distance  "  (the  name  was 
never  given),  the  candles  in  the  primitive  chandelier 

5  Drowsiness  in  Meeting  was  by  110  means  a  new  experience,  bbwevet. 
At  .Edinburgh  Yearly  Meeting  for  1724,  after  the  Queries  had  been  duly 
read,  it  is  recorded  that  "  friends  have  agreed  yl  there  be  an  addition  to 
the  Querys  with  respect  to  the  abstaining  from  sleep  after  this  manner 
(viz.)  and  whither  friends  abstain  from  sleeping  in  meetings." 


OLD  EDINBURGH  FRIENDS 


47 


were  supplemented  by  others  orrthe  window-sills  and  other 
coigns  of  vantage,  stuck  into  improvised  candlesticks 
of  potatoes  cut  in  half.  On  these  occasions  the  sliding 
panels  were  removed  from  the  passage,  and  "  the  loft  " 
was  thrown  open,  a  gloomy  apartment  above  the  passage 
and  Women's  Meeting  House,  access  to  which  was  gained 
by  narrow  stairs  issuing  from  "  the  Library/' 

Family  visits  from  "  Ministering  Friends  "  were 
comparatively  common  in  those  days,  and  on  the  some- 
what rare  occasions  when  the  "  Public  Friend.  "  engaged 
in  prayer,  the  family  of  course  stood  up.  I  remember 
tiie  astonished  leprobation  with  which  a  member  of  a 
by  no  means  exceedingly  "  plain  "  Friend's  family 
mentioned  the  report  that  the  household  of  a  well-known 
Halifax  Friend  all  went  down  on  their  knees  on  such 
occasions.  I  think  there  were  only  two  Friends  at 
Edinburgh,  David  Doull  and  John  Wigham,  Tertius,  who 
for  many  years  kept  up  the  old  Puritan  custom  of  holding 
their  broadbrims  in  front  of  their  faces  in  meeting  during 
the  time  of  prayer.  One  very  occasionally  sees  this 
still  done  in  church  by  a  worshipper  on  entering,  before 
sitting  down,  and  I  have  seen  the  custom  followed  in 
some  of  the  Calvinistic  parts  of  Switzerland.  When  we 
stayed  in  the  country  during  the  summer  holidays  we 
always  had  our  little  gatherings  together  in  silence  at  our 
lodgings  on  a  First-day  morning,  and  sometimes  in  the 
afternoon  as  well.  No  consistent  Friend  could  have 
dreamt  of  countenancing  "  the  will  worship "  of  "  a 
hireling  ministry  "  by  joining  with  the  worshippers  in 
church  or  chapel.  My  father  very  consistently  carried 
out  his  principles  under  what,  to  a  sensitive  man  such 
as  he  was,  must  have  been  very  trying  circumstances. 
Meetings  in  support  of  Anti-Slavery,  Peace  and  other  good 
works  in  which  Friends  were  interested,  and  in  which 
they  united  with  other  Christians,  used  to  be  held  in  one 
-or  other  of  the  dissenting  Meeting  Houses  at  Edinburgh. 
It  was  a  matter  of  course  that  the  meeting  was  opened 
with  prayer  by  the  minister  or  a  colleague,  when  every- 
body stood  up.  On  one  occasion  my  father  had  been 
persuaded,  very  reluctantly,  to  take  the  chair.  Whether 
he  had  explained  his  scruples  to  the  minister  beforehand 
I  do  not  know,  but  he  sat  quietly  all  through  the  lengthy 


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OLD  EDINBURGH  FRIENDS 


prayer,  in  the  face  of  the  standing  assembly.  He  had  a 
specially  strong  objection  to  the  term  "  Reverend"  as 
applied  to  any  man,  and  felt  almost  as  strongly  about 
<*  Mr.  "  and  "  Esquire."  "  Thou  may  esquire  them  if 
thou  likes,  Daniel,  I  never  do,"  he  once  said  to  his  friend 
and  pupil,  Daniel  Wilson,  who  had  been  addressing  some 
letters  for  him.  The  Established  churches  were  not  called 
by  the  name  of  the  parish  in  which  they  were  situate — 
St.  Cuthbert's,  St.  Andrew's,  as  the  case  might  be — (or 
if  it  was  necessary  in  a  formal  document  so  to  designate 
them,  the  words  "  so  called  "  were  always  appended)  but 
iii  ordinary  conversation  the  name  of  the  minister  who 
preached  there  was  employed.  Thus  Newington  Parish 
Church,  a  conspicuous  object  from  our  windows,  was 
always  known  as  "  Runciman's  Church."  So,  too,  with 
the  dissenting  places  of  worship  :  the  U.P.  Chapel  in 
Nicholson  Street  was  "  George  Johnston's,"  the  Independ- 
ent meeting  place  in  College  Street  "  Dr.  French's." 

Paintings  were  hardly  ever  seen  on  the  walls  of  Friends' 
houses,  and  even  engravings  but  sparingly.  In  the  well- 
furnished  house  of  John  Wigham,  Tertius,  there  was  a 
copy  of  the  engraving  of  "  Penn's  Treaty  with  the 
Indians,"  in  the  dining  room.  I  remember  too  a  wonder- 
ful fire-screen  in  coloured  worsted  work  representing  "  the 
Flight  into  Egypt  "  which  stood  in  one  corner  of  the 
drawing-room.  David  Doull  also  had  a  copy  of  "  Penn's 
Treaty  "  in  one  of  his  rooms  ;  and  John  Wigham,  Junior, 
went  so  far  as  to  have  engraved  portraits  of  Elizabeth  Fry 
and  William  Allen,  and  an  engraving  of  the  opening  of  the 
first  reformed  Parliament,  in  his  drawing-room.  At  Hope 
Park,  as  was  to  be  expected,  the  walls  had  more  artistic 
adornment,  but  in  connection  with  that  I  may  recall 
that  when  paper-hangings  were  first  substituted  in  the 
parlour  for  the  dull-toned  paint,  which  dated  probably 
from  my  grandfather's  time,  my  father  had  the  first  paper 
stripped  off  again  and  a  much  plainer  one  substituted,  as, 
on  seeing  it  on  the  walls,  he  feared  that  the  one  he  had 
selected  might,  after  all,  grieve  the  feelings  of  some  of  his 
friends.  I  think  at  Meadowside,  a  single  portrait  in  oils, 
by  one  of  the  old  masters,  was  hanging  in  the  dining-room, 
also  a  somewhat  gaudy  Swiss  landscape  with  a  village 
church  spire  in  the  centre  in  which  a  real  going  clock  was 


OLD  EDINBURGH  FRIENDS 


49 


inserted  !  But  that  must  have  been  after  Alexander 
Cruickshanks's  death.  They  had  been  brought  from 
abroad  by  his  youngest  son,  who  had  resided  in  Italy  for 
some  time  on  account  of  his  health.  He  brought  back 
another  most  unfriendly  possession,  according  to  the 
ideas  of  those  days,  a  moustache,  which  caused  great 
concern  to  his  family.  More  than  one  of  Alexander 
Cruickshanks's  children  developed  a  great  love  for  the  fine 
arts,  two  of  them  forming  good  collections  of  engravings. 

Alexander  Cruickshank  himself,  like  other  Friends  of 
Ike  period,  had  a  e'reaf  objection  to  having  his  likeness 
taken.  Some  of  his  children,  however,  without  his  know- 
ledge, introduced  into  the  house  a  local  artist  of  some 
talent,  Dobie  by  name,  who,  watching  his  opportunity, 
succeeded  in  making  a  good  drawing  of  the  all-unconscious 
old  Friend  whilst  he  was  seated  in  his  arm  chair  with 
his  after-dinner  book.  The  last  illness  of  Ann  (Christy) 
Cruickshank,  in  1836,  was  a  brief  one,  and  her  children  were 
much  distressed  that  they  had  no  likeness  of  their  mother. 
However,  Dr.  Barry  and  Alfred  Blakey,  enthusiastic 
young  men,  took  a  plaster  cast  of  her  face,  from  which 
many  years  later  a  good  marble  bust  was  executed. 
I  fancy  it  was  by  the  same  sculptor  that  a  bust  of  Alfred 
Biakey  was  afterwards  made  ;  but  in  this  case,  the  vault 
had  to  be  visited  at  dead  of  night,  the  coffin  opened,  and 
the  needed  cast  of  the  features  then  taken. 

In  the  family  circle  in  those  days,  singing  and  all 
"  instruments  of  musick  "  were  of  course  strictly  taboo, 
though  man}'  of  the  young  Friends  and  even  some  of  the 
older  ones  were — I  was  going  to  say  passionately,  but  as 
that  is  hardly  a  Friendly  word,  let  us  say  exceedingly ,  fond 
of  music.  Some  of  the  young  people,  it  was  rumoured, 
played  surreptitiously  on  the  Jews-harp,  for  lack  of  a 
better  instrument.  It  need  hardly  be  added  that  dancing 
and  concert  and  theatre  going  were  still  absolutely  for- 
bidden, but,  curiously  enough,  acting  Charades  was  a 
favourite  diversion  in  more  than  one  orthodox  household. 
What  dressings  up  there  used  to  be  in  all  manner  of  out- 
landish garments,  including  generally,  on  one  pretext  or 
another,  an  old  Friend's  bonnet  and  a  broadbrim  ! 
Recitations  were  also  encouraged,  even  those  from 
Shakespear.  Playing-cards,  of  course,  were  never  seen,  but 


50  THE  CAMBRIDGE  "JOURNAL" 

there  was  a  game  at  "  Poetical  Cards,"  in  which  I  think 
you  had  to  guess  the  name  of  the  authors  of  certain 
quotations,  or  perhaps  the  subjects  of  the  verses.  Several 
writing  games,  as  well  as  "  Cartoons,"  "  George  Fox's 
Hat  "  and  "  Clumps,"  were  great  favourites,  and  in  the 
winter  evenings  we  had  "  Blind  Man's  Buff,"  "  Hunt 
the  Whistle,"  "  Neighbour,  neighbour,  I've  come  to  tor- 
ment thee,"  and  other  active  games  ;  whilst  in  the  long 
summer  evenings  there  were  grand  times  in  the  garden 
over  "  Prisoners'  Base,"  "  1  Spy,"  and  "  Brush."  1 
fear  the  present  generation  of  highly  superior  young 
people  would  have  regarded  our  proceedings  as  unutter- 
ably childish  and  "  slow,"  but  the}'  were  a  source  of  very 
great  enjoyment  to  those  who  participated  in  them,  and 
hosts  of  pleasant  memories  rise  up  as  one  recalls  the 
hospitable  houses  where  we  used  to  meet,  some  sixty  or 
seventy  years  ago. 

W.  F.  Miller. 

Note. — There  are  numerous  references  to  Edinburgh  and  some  of 
its  Quaker  inhabitants  in  Memoirs  of  John  Wigkam  Richardson,  1837- 
1908. —Ed. 


ZU  £cnn8t%c  "  3ountar 

Continued  from  page  26 

36. — Vol.  II.  p.  199. — A  textual  note  should  have  been  written  to 
the  reference  "  Acts  2.22.23,"  somewhat  as  follows :  This  is  the 
reference  as  originally  written.  At  some  later  period  the  figure  denoting 
the  chapter  has  been  altered  to  3,  correcting  the  reference. 


Thursday  was  married  at  the  Quakers-Meeting  in  Gracechurch- 
Street,  Mr.  Bell,1  a  wealthy  Hosier  in  the  same  Street,  to  Miss  Faikener* 
of  Wapping,  Daughter  of  Mr.  Falkener,  late  an  eminent  Merchant  of 
this  City,  an  agreeable  Lady  with  a  Fortune  of  6000I. 

Newscutting  in  D,,  dated  1743. 

1  On  the  17th  of  Twelfth  Month,  1742,  Robert  Bell,  hosier,  citizen, 
and  Long  Bow  String  Maker,  married  Margaret  Falconer,  daughter 
of  John  and  Anne  Falconer,    (friends'  Registers.) 


M  BxUut^txuU  in  #?effk&  m  \6W 


Extract  from  a  Letter  addressed  by  Sarah  Smith  of 
Sheffield  to  her  oxly  Sister,  Rebecca  Shorthouse 
of  Birmingham  » 

Carr  Wood2  8  mo  11th  1816. 
On  7th  day  we  had  such  a  company  as  it  seldom  falls 
to  my  lot  to  entertain;  taken  all  together,  affording  not 
only  enjoyment  at  the  time,  but  permanent- delight,  when 
recollected,  Josh  &  Ann  Gilbert,3-4  Jane  Taylor, 5  James 
Montgomery,6  Maria  Benson,7  &  Geo.   Bennett8  came 

!  Sarah  Smith  (1767-1845)  was  the  younger  daughter  of  Joseph  and 
Hannah  (Storer)  Robinson,  of  Birmingham.  Her  elder  sister  was 
Rebecca  (1765- 1S58),  wife  and  widow  of  Wil  liam  Shorthouse  (c.  1769-1838). 
The  sisters  helped  their  father  in  the  retail  department  of  his  business. 
In  1799,  Sarah  married  Samuel  Smith,  of  Sheffield  (1769-1821)  ;  there  were 
no  children.  Samuel  Smith  and  his  brother  William  owned  the  first  rbllirig 
mills  for  iron  and  steel  erected  in  their  town,  and  to  this  lucrative  business 
succeeded  Edward  Smith  (1800-1868),  only  son  of  the  latter  and  the  well- 
known  Temperance  worker  and  philanthropist. 

The  original  letter  from  which  these  extracts  are  taken  is  in  the 
possession  of  George  Cecil  Dymond,  of  Carrwood,  Birkenhead.  The 
extracts  are  printed  in  Memorials  of  the  Families  of  Shorthouse  ar.d 
Robinson,  a  private  circulation  volume,  printed  in  1902  to  commemorate 
the  one  hundredth  birthday  of  Sarah  Southall,  1901.  A  copy  of  the  book 
was  presented  to  D.  by  G.  C.  Dymond,  in  1909. 

2  Carrwood  was  built  by  Samuel  Smith  in  181 1  ;  it  occupied  a 
beautiful  site  overlooking  the  Don,  a  mile  or  two  from  Sheffield.  On 
Sarah  Smith's  death  Carrwood  was  sold  to  a  Sheffield  manufacturer.  The 
name  survives  in  local  topography. 

3  Joseph  Gilbert  (1779-1852}  was  a  Congregational  minister  at 
Sheffield  and  later  at  Nottingham. 

•»  Ann  Gilbert  (1782-1866)  is  better  known  as  Ann  Taylor,  writer  of 
children's  poetry,  with  her  sister,  Jane  Taylor.  She  married  Joseph 
Gilbert  in  1813. 

5  Jane  Taylor  (1783-1824),  younger  sister  of  Ann  Taylor  (afterwards 
Gilbert;  and  daughter  of  Isaac  Taylor.  The  poems  by  the  sisters  became 
immensely  popular. 

6  James  Montgomery  (1771-1854),  poet,  and  newspaper  editor.  He 
was  imprisoned  in  York  Castle  for  Ifbel  in  1795  and  1796,  and  in  prison  he 
became  acquainted  with  the  Friends  who  were  there  on  account  of  non- 
payment of  tithes  due  George  Markham,  Vicar  of  Carlton.  He  wrote 
lines  on  the  death,  in  1803,01  Joseph  Brown,  one  of  his  fellow  prisoners 
■ — "Spirit,  leave  thy  house  of  clay,"  and  lines  also  on  the  death  of 
Richard  Reynolds,  1.81.6 — "  Strike  a  louder,  loftier  lyre."  Montgomery 
is  mentioned  by  Henry  Wormali  in  his  diary  of  his  detention  in  York 
Castle,  in  very  warm  terms  ;  attached  to  the  diary  (now  in  D,,  see 
I'.Q.E.,  1878),  ts  a  letter  dated  1808,  from  the  Poet,  enclosing  a  gift  o!  /5 
for  his  friend  Wonnali.    On  hearing  of  Sarah  Smith's  death  he  wrote  a 


52 


A  LITERARY  CIRCLE  IN  1816 


to  dinner  &  v.*e  were  joined  at  tea  by  Eliz^  Read9  (her 
husband  is  in  London),  Emma  Lance,7  Hanh  Kilham10 
&  E.  &  A.  Bayley.11.  .It  was  a  delightful  day  for  most 
of  them  were  intimately  acquainted,  &  all  had  met  before, 
&  I  think  had  been  pleased  to  meet.. The  day  was  hue 
&  we  were  sometimes  out  of  doors  &  sometimes  in,  as  we 
liked,  &  when  in  the  room  frequently  changed  our  seats 
that  all  might  partake  of  conversation  where  it  appeared 
most  animated.  Jane  Taylor  is  a  sweet  simple  hearted 
affectionate  young  woman,  she  ran  about  like  a  fawn 
■ — Montgomery  was  all  animation,  tho'  he  has  lately 
experienced  what  1  think  they  sajr  he  calls  the  greatest 
trial  he  ever  met  with — a  parting  from  Sarah  Gales,12 
I  have  mentioned  before  I  daresay  that  she  had  concluded 
to  go  &  reside  in  America,  at  the  very  earnest  request 
of  her  relations  there,  &  a  friend  of  theirs  was  deputed  to 
take  her  over.    She  sailed  on  2nd  day  in  the  Lancaster, 


letter  to  her  nephew,  Edward  Smith,  recording  the  fact  of  their  fifty  years 
of  friendship. 

On  one  occasion  Elizabeth  Fry,  accompanied  with  her  daughter 
Rachel,  had  a  meeting  at  Sheffield.  It  was  very  crowded  and  several  men, 
including  Montgomery,  had,  in  consequence,  to  sit  on  the  women's  side. 
Meeting  Montgomery  at  Carrwood.  Rachel  Fry  (aft.  Cresswell),  "  a  lively, 
impulsive  girl,  said  to  him,  4  And  were  you  not  very  happy,  Mr.  Mont- 
gomery, sitting  among  the  ladies  ?  '  '  Happy  !  '  he  replied,  '  I  was  never 
so  miserable  in  my  life  '  "  {Memorials,  p.  38). 
i  Not  identified. 

8  Bennett  was  a  Sheffield  gentleman,  a  traveller  and  pioneer  mis- 
sionary in  the  South  Seas.  He  wrote  copiously  on  his  travels  and  was  a 
frequent  visitor  at  Carrwood.  Montgomery  prepared  a  record  of  the 
travels  of  Bennett. 

9  Elizabeth  Read  lived  at  Wincobank  Hall.  Shewas  foremost  in  the 
charitable  work  of  Yorkshire,  and  probably  a  Congregationalism 

10  Hannah  Kjlham  (1774-1832),  nee  Spurr,  married  Alexander  Kilham. 
a  Methodist  minister,  in  1798,  her  husband  dying  the  same  year.  In  1802 
she  joined  Friends,  from  1S05  to  1821  she  had  a  day  and  boarding  school 
in  Sheffield.  Her  only  child  died  in  infancy.  She  was  a  Minister  and 
writer,  and  visited  West  Africa  thrice  in  the  interests  of  the  natives.  She 
died  and  was  buried  at  sea,  near  Sierra  Leone.  Montgomery  wrote  a 
testimonial  of  her  worth.    See  Memoir,  by  her  step-daughter-in-law, 

I83/.  K 

11  E.  and  A.  Bayley  lived  with  a  brother  on  the  Occupation  road  not 
far  from  Can  wood.  They  were  Unitarian?  and  leaders  in  the  intellectual 
life  of  Sheffield.  Sarah  Shorthouse,  aft.  Southall,  was  present  as  a  girl 
of  fifteen  at  the  party  described.  The  printed  extracts  from  this  letter, 
taken  from  a  MS.  by  Sarah  Southall,  give  "  Ann  and  Mary  Bailey." 

The  only  surviving  daughter  of  Sarah  Southall,  Margaret  Evans,  of 
Llanmaes  House,  near  Llantwit  Major,  has  kindly  assisted  in  the 
preparation  of  these,  notes. 


A  LITERARY  CIRCLE  IN  1816 


53 


..Her  Sister  Ann12  &  Montgomery  accompanied  her  to 
Liverpool!  the  latter  sailed  down  the  river  with  her,  & 
tame  back  in  the  Pilot  boat,  &  it  is  said  it  was  with  great 
[difficult}7  he  was  made  to  leave  the  ship  at  last.  He  was 
[they  say  in  love  with  her  ;  but  having  now  made  a  firm 
resolution  not  to  marry,  he  made  no  effort  to  detain  her, 
believing  it  best  for  both  to  be  separated,  but  M.  Benson 
says  he  acknowledged  when  he  returned,  that  when  the 
parting  moment  came  he  would  have  given  up  all  ad- 
vantage— all  connections  beside,  &:  have  gone' with  her, 
rathei4  tnari  have  parted — his  serisibility  is  extreme,  his 
pare  is  as  much  as  possible  to  hide  it,  if  displayd,  it 
would  really  amount  to  the  ludicrous  altho'  perfectly 
[sincere].  We  were  some  of  us  so  cruel  on  7th  day  as  to 
laugh  instead  of  crying  at  some  things  he  said  relative 
to  this  grand  event  of  his  life.  Many  of  us  were  sorry 
to  part  with  her  however  for  she  is  a  sweet-temper' d 
pleasant  sensible  young  woman.  We  are  exceedingly 
glad  of  the  acquisition  of  Josh  Gilbert  &  his  wife  as 
acquaintances .  .Tho'  both  admired  Anthers,  they  are  as 
easy  of  access,  &  as  free  in  conversation  as  any  common 
person  we  meet  in  society  ;  indeed  Josh  Gilbert  possesses 
a  sweetness  of  mind  &  manners  almost  unequalled  in 
his  sex  I  think.  Poor  Isaac  Taylor^  was  left  behind,  he 
was  so  much  afraid  of  the  evening  air,  &  tho'  I  wanted 
his  company,  I  thought  it  better  for  him  to  sta}r,  for  he 
has  taken  cold  lately  &  is  in  a  very  precarious  state  of 
health.. 


What  was  it  to  me  to  read  of  arty  being  born  again,  till  I  was  slain, 
and  knew  the  heavenly  baptism  of  Christ  Jesus  ? 

William  Dewsbury,  in  a  sermon  preached  at  Gracechurch  Street, 
London,  6  iii.  1688,  printed  1741,  p.  14. 

12  The  sisters  Ann  and  Sarah  Gales  were,  perhaps,  daughters  of  the 
Mr.  Gales  who  was  editor  of  the  Sheffield  Registott  (af  terwards  the  Sheffield 
t    Ws),  the  predecessor  of  Montgomery.   He  got  into  trouble  with  his  paper 
I    and. fled, to  America.    Ann  was  Montgomery's  companion  and  friend; 
[    she  kept  house  for  him  as  long  as  she  lived. 

*3  This  was  Isaac  Taylor  ((737-1865)  son  of  Isaac  Taylor,  of  Or  gar 
(I759-i829),  and  brother  of  Ann  and  jane.  He  wrote  "  The  Natural 
History  of  Enthusiasm,"  "  Ancient  Christianity,"  etc.  He  was  called 
"  the  Recluse  of  Stanford  Rivers." 

In  a  note  to  this  reference  to  Isaac  Taylor,  Sarah  Southall  writes, 
"  It  is  remarkable  after  this  account  that  Isaac  Taylor  lived  to  be  an  old 
man  ;  lie  published  many  celebrated  works." 


1813 


Dear  Madam 

I  am  informed  that  you  called  on  me  this  morning 
to  accompany  yourself  and  Miss  Springmann  to  the 
National  School,  and  that  not  finding  me  risen  yon 
proposed  to  call  again  this  afternoon  for  that  purpose. 
Though  this  is  the  second  day  that  I  have  been  confined 
in  bed  till  noon,  from  the  effects  of  a  cold,  I  should  not 
have  hesitated  on  an  ordinary  occasion  to  have  rendered 
my  best  services  according  to  your  desire.  But  your 
friend  is  not  an  ordinary  person  and  I  feel  so  much  diffi- 
culty on  the  subject  of  introducing  her  to  the  National 
School  (in  its  present  state  especially)  that  I  really  dare 
not  do  it,  I  am  not  one  of  the  Committee,  nor  am  I 
even  eligible  to  serve  on  it,  as  the  Church  does  not 
acknowledge  me  a  member  of  its  peculiar  community. 
I  am  therefore  an  unprivileged  subscriber  only  to  the 
School.  I  was  indeed  nominated  one  of  the  original 
Committee,  but  when  that  Committee  were  pleased  to 
depart  from  the  principles  which  were  understood  a  mo  neb  *- 
us  to  be  the  basis  of  the  Institution,  and  to  adopt  a  strict 
Church  form  in  the  day  as  well  as  the  Sunday  School,  I 
became  necessarily  excluded  from  any  share  in  the 
direction.  I  therefore  feel  myself  in  a  very  delicate  situ- 
ation with  respect  to  introducing  a  stranger,  of  whom  it  i> 
probable  some  jealousy  may  be  entertained,  and  I  must 
honestly  confess — as  the  plain  truth  will  please  you  better 
than  any  mere  evasion, — that  I  have  not  the  courage  to 
risk  the  displeasure  that  might  be  excited  by  my  com- 
pliance with  your  desire  at  this  time.  I  therefore  cast 
myself  on  your  generosity  to  give  me  credit  for  a  sincere 
wish  to  gratify  your  friend's  laudable  curiosity,  without 
being  at  liberty  in  my  own  mind  to  do  it.  My  appre- 
hensions may  be  vain, --and  no  offence  might  be  caused, 
by  your  friend's  visit  to  the  School,  but  I  think  at  any 
rate,  she  had  better  be  introduced  either  by  one  of  the 


54 


EDWARD  PEASE  TO  SARAH  SMITH  55 

Committee  or  some  churchman  qualified  to  be  upon  the 
Committee. 

With  sincere  respect  and  esteem 

I  am  your  obliged  friend  &  serv* 

J.  Montgomery. 

Iris  Office. 

jMov.  26.  1813 . 

[Addressed  to] 

Mrs.  S.  Smith. 

Camvood  [Sheffield]. 

From  the  original  in  the  possession  of  G.  C.  Dymond. 
A  postscript  gives  the  names  of  the  persons  on  the 
Committee. 


Bhwath  $peau  to  §kata§  jskmxt^  1827 


High  fiats  10  Mo.  24th  1827 

Dear  Friend 
Sarah.  Smith 

Perhaps  thou  wouldst  learn  that  my  dr  Son  John1 
is  engaged  in  a  visit  to  the  meetgs  in  the  West  riding, 
&  in  the  prosecution  of  this  work,  we  thought  thou  wouldst 
have  the  kindness  to  take  in  two  very  poor  pilgrims  if 
thou  wast  not  engaged  with  company,  or  otherwise — 

the  time  we  looked  to  as  most  likely,  was  seventh 
day  next — as  looking  to  sitting  with  the  family  at  Newill* 
on  our  road  from  Barnsley  (if  the  read  be  passable)  there 

1  John  Pease,  the  rioted  Minister,  who  was  accompanied  on  many 
of  his  home- journeys  by  his  father,  as  companion-Elder. 

'Newhill  Hall,  lying  to  the  East  of  a  direct  line  between  Barnsley 
and  Sheffield,  is  an  ancient  mansion  belonging  to  the  (junker  family  of 
Payne.  It  was  built  in  the  year  1785,  by  John  Payne,  who  was  born  at 
Newhill  Grange  (no'.v  a  farmhouse  adjoining  the  Hall)  in  1757.  The 
Hall  is  of  "  Georgian.  "  architecture  with  "  Adams"  mantelpieces  and  a 
handsome  "  Adams  "  ceiling  in  the  drawing-room.  An  earlier  John  Payne 
married  Ann  Aid  an  1,  of  Warms  worth,  in  1708.  having  settled  at.  Newhill 
shortly  before  his  marriage. — (From  private  information,  and  the  f  riends' 
Registers.) 


56  JOSEPH  JOHN  GURNEY  TO  SARAH  SMITH 


is  some  uncertainty  of  our  being  with  thee  to  dine,  then 
please  not  to  wait  for  us  if  we  be  not  in  by  One  Clock, 
as  we  then  shall  hope  to  be  in,  in  nice  tea  time — I  must 
trust  to  thy  kindness  to  excuse  all  this  freedom,  &  when 
we  are  favord  to  meet  we  must  place  it  all  either  to  the 
account  of  the  Church,  or  that  friendship  which  would 
have  sincere  gratification  in  having  thee  under  the  roof 
of  the  writer — I  may  add  we  have  been  enabled  through 
favor  to  get  along  to  the  relief  of  my  dear  companion, 
and  I  trust  without  incurring  the  condemnation  of  frds3 — 
but  this  I  would  speak  humbly,  freed  from  having  whereof 
lo  boast — We  unite  in  Love  to  thee  & 
I  am 

Thy  affectionate  Friend 

Edward  Pease. * 

3  Note  the  curious,  cautious  phrasing,  once  so  much  in  use  in  records 
of  religious  visits. 

«  Edward  Pease  (1767-1S58),  "  the  Father  of  Railways."  His  letter 
is  printed  from  a  copy  of  the  original,  which  is  in  the  possession  of  G.  Cecil 
Dymond,  of  Birkenhead. 


jfrg  &f  0  §m$  1829 

Norwich  7  mo.  22d  1829. 

My  dear  friend. 

I  do  not  know  whether  thou  art  at  home  ;  &  if  at 
home,  I  do  not  know  what  thou  wilt  say  to  me,  when  I 
tell  thee  that  I  propose  coming  with  my  wife1  &  little  bo}72 
to  thy  house  next  seventh  day  evening — It  is  not  im- 
probable that  my  dear  sister  Ftyi  may  also  be  of  the 
party — &  further  (I  hope  I  shall  not  alarm  thee)  my 
mother  Fowler4  proposes  coming  to  Sheffield  that  evening 

would  of  course  wish  to  be  as  much  as  she  can  with  her 

1  Mary,  daughter  of  Robert  and  Rachel  Fowler,  of  ^Ielksham,  Wilt- 
shire, whom  Tie  married  in  1827. 

-  Presumably,  John  Henry  Gurney,  b.  1819,  a  child  of  the  first 
marriage,  well-known  naturalist. 

3  Elizabeth  Fry,  nie  Gurney. 

f  Rachel  howler  (17 67  - 1  3 3 )  rJe  Barnard, 


ELIZABETH  FRY  TO  SARAH  SMITH  57 


j  daughter.  We  should  be  on  our  way  to  Ackworth  & 
I    wish  to  pass  first  day  with  Friends  of  your  meeting. 

I  have  ventured  to  propose  to  my  mother  io  rendez- 
I  vous  at  Garwood  ;  and  of  course  those  whom  thou  canst 
I  not  conveniently  take  in  can  go  to  an  Inn  to  sleep — or 
I   all  of  us,  if  thou  art  already7  full — 

Hoping  thou  wilt  excuse  my  freedom, 
I  I  am  thy  affecte  friend, 

j  J.  J.  GlJRXEY. 

I  [Addressed  to] 

Sarah  Smith, 

Garwood, 

near  Sheffield, 

If  absent 

Wm  Hargreaves.5  [postage  nd."j 


Upton  lane  .8/15/1829. 

My  dear  friend. 

I  arrived  safely  at  home  last  3d  day  &  found  my  dear 
family  as  well  as  usual  but  my  poor  husband  still  in  a  low 
state  and  certainly  such  events  as  we  have  passed  through 
are  very  very  shaking  as  to  this  life.6  I  feel  the  weight  of 
the  cloud  upon  my  return  after  being  a  little  diverted 
from  it  by  the  interesting  objects  of  our  journey. 

I  think  that  I  engaged  to  give  some  little  hints  of  my 
view  of  the  state  of  your  debt  prison  therefore  I  will 
endeavour  to  do  it. 

In  the  first  place  I  consider  the  want  of  the  separ- 
ation of  the  sexes  the  most  crying  evil  and  a  most  un- 
justifiable exposure  of  the  morals  of  both  parties  and  that 
something  should  be  done  at  once  to  remedy  it  at  least 
the  womens  room  should  be  locked  up  at  night  &  they 
should  have  a  bell  that  they  could  ring  if  they  want  any- 

s  This  was  probably  the  William  Hargreaves,  who  died  in  183.4.  act. 
64,  He  had  a  son,  William,  and  a  daughter,  Lydia,  who  became 
leading  Friends  in  Sheffield,  the  latter  being  a  Minister.  Brother  and 
sister  were  joint-owners  of  a  cutlery  business.  A  little  knife  is  now  in  the 
possession  of  Margaret  Evans  {nee  South  all),  marked  W.  and  L.  Har- 
greaves. William  (died  1874)  never  married.  In  1839,  Lydia  married 
Ralph  Neild  as  his  second  wife.    She  died  in  1859,  act.  63. 

6  Owing  to  the  failure  of  the  business  house  in  which  her  husband 
wan  indirectly  concerned. 


58      ELIZABETH  FRY  TO  SARAH  SMITH 


thing  in  the  night — I  think  they  should  certainly  be 
allowed  firing  as  well  as  bread  which  is  after  all  a  scanty 
allowance  for  them.  There  should  be  divine  service  at 
least  once  a  week  and  a  suitable  place  for  it  as  it  is  wrong 
&  hard  that  prisoners  for  debt  should  be  excluded  the 
privilege  of  attending  a  place  of  worship.  Thus  far  1 
think* thai:  the  gentleman  whose  place  it  is  should  be 
induced  to  have  these  things  attended  to — Then  I  see 
that  much  may  be  done  by  benevolent  ladies  or  gentle- 
men frequently  visiting  these  poor  creatines  reading 
to  them  instructing  them  giving  them  books  (as  has 
already  been  done)  and  endeavouring  to  induce  the  poor 
prisoners  to  make  such  use  of  their  time  as  ma}r  prove  a 
blessing  to  them  in  after  life  also  some  attention  might  at 
times  be  paid  to  their  poor  families.  I  do  not  know  that 
I  have  more  to  say  upon  the  subject  except  to  express  my 
desire  that  a  few  of  my  dear  friends  at  Sheffield  may  be 
induced  to  visit  these  poor  persons  because  I  do  believe 
they  would  find  it  do  good  and  very  likely  be  blessed  to 
many. 

I  remember  with,  gratitude  thy  great  kindness  to 
me  also  C — TV  attention.  After  all  I  have  passed 
through  I  find  the  kindness  and  love  of  my  dear  friends 
a  great  cordial  to  me — 

I  could  send  my  love  to  many  at  Sheffield  but 
particularly  wish  to  have  it  given  to  Mary  Hargrave. 
My  kind  remembrances  to  the  Harrisons — 

and  believe  me  with  feelings  of  much  love  to  thee  & 
thy  companion 

Thy  obliged  friend, 

Eliz™  Fry. 
Bfy  kind  remembrances  to  Sarah  the  maid. 
[Addressed  to] 
Sarah  Smith 
Car  Wood 
near 

Shcfrield.  [postage  ilA] 

7  That  is,  Charlotte  Tomkinson,  the  companion  of  Sarah  Smith  after 
5arav.f  l  Smith's  decease.  She  married  Wilson  Burgess,  of  Leicester,  in 
1833- 

The  above  letters  are  printed  from  copies  made  from  the  originals 
in  the  possession  of  G.  Cecil  Dymond. 


(Meting  (Keeotbs 


At  the  Meeting  House,  Neath,  South  Wales 

Carmarthenshire  M.M.  1724-1744. 

Do.  .  do.  1748-1750.. 

Do.  do.  1756,  1762,  1768. 

Do.  do.  1762-1764. 

Carmarthen  and  Cardigan  M.M.  1764-1768. 

Swansea  M.M.  1748-17 87. 

Carmarthen  and  Glamorgan  M.M.  1787-1831.  4  vol: 

South  Division  of  Wales  M.M.  1831  to  date. 


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Mark  Beaufoy,  Esq.,  the  father  of  the  Member  for  Yarmouth,  was 
the  first  Quaker  who  ever  appeared  in  that  character  at  the  Court  of 
Versailles.  'J  he  French  King  [Louis  XVI.]  having  expressed  a  desire  to 
see  one  of  that  sect  in  his  proper  dress,  Lord  Stormont,  who  was  at  that 
time  the  British  Ambassador,  introduced  Mr.  Beaufoy,  who  appeared 
covered  in  the  presence  of  his  most  Christian  Majesty. 

Xev/scutting  in  D.,  r/87. 


&*  Qjnmtfyovivtb  (pft&Setytfa  "©teetpftne" 

*71  LITTLE  book  with  the  following  title  lias  recently  been  acquired 
cw^  for  the  Devonshire  House  Reference  Library — Rules  of  Discipline 
of  the  Yearly  Meeting  of  Friends  held  in  Philadelphia,  carefully 
examined  and  compared  with  ike  Copies  printed  by  direction  of  the  Meeting, 
and  now  in  -use  in  all  the  Meetings  in  Philadelphia.  (Philadelphia: 
J.  Mortimer,  74  S.  Second  Street.  James  Kay,  Jim.,  Printer,  1828  (6  by 
pp.  135).  There  is  an  Appendix  of  manuscript  additions  to  the 
printed  copies,  dating  from  1807  to  181S.  The  "  Address  to  the  Reader  " 
is  as  follows  :-— 

"  Hitherto  the  Books  of  which  the  following  pages  are  an  exact 
transcript,  have  been  kept  in  the  different  meeting  houses  of  our  society, 
under  the  charge  of  the  overseers  and  clerks  ;  and  how  deeply  soever  we, 
as  individuals  of  the  same  community,  may  be  interested  in  their  contents, 
they  have  for  the  most  part  been  kept  as  secret  and  as  sa.cred  as  the 
books  of  the  Hindoos. 

"  We  have  always  been  of  opinion  that  what  is  in  itself  good,  cannot 
be  too  widely  diffused,  or  too  extensively  known.  We  believe  that  the 
Rules  of  our  Discipline  have  this  tendency  ;  and  so  believing,  we  have 
taken  the  usual  means  of  making  them  public  by  printing  them  ;  and  we 
earnestly  hope  that  all  our  good  intentions  may  be  realized. 

"  Philadelphia,  ii/A  mo.  1825." 

Attached  to  the  front  cover  of  the  book  is  a  paper  on  which  is 
written  the  following: — -"This  edition  was  printed  without  consent  of  the 
Yearly  Meeting,  by  a  person  who  is  not  a  member  of  society,  but  is  said 
to  be  correct  with  the  exception  of  one  paragraph  on  page  27  enclosed  in 
Brackets  :  the  Yearly  Meeting  of  Philadelphia  has  not  adopted  this 
regulation  (receiving  disowned  persons  on  '  request  as  other  applicants')." 

Can-any  reader  supply  the  name  of  the  author  ? 

Since  writing  the  above,  another  earlier  edition  of  the  same  book  has 
come  to  light — the  one  entered  in  Smith's  Catalogue,  i.  763,  among  official 
publications  of  Philadelphia  Y.M.,  printed  in  1825. 

The  early  authorised  editions  of.  the  Discipline  appear  to  be  : — 
Collection  of  Add  ices,  in  M.S.  only,  1763  ;  Rules  of  Discipline,  1707,  1806, 
and  1834.    Ali  these  editions  are  in  D. 


Mrs.  Drummond,'  the  famous  Quaker  Preacher,  came  to  Town  en 
Thursday  Night  from  Oxford,  having  been  the  Admiration  of  the  Countries 
where  she  made  her  Progress. 

Ncwscutting  in  D.,  dated  1736. 

'  For  records  of  the  life  of  May  Drummond,  see  The  Journal, 
vol.  iv. 

60 


Qfb&ff  relating  to  ®%a.0e(|  %t&i%  of 
(TStanef?e£&,  Joimtoees  of  gear's 

/:|^HERE  is  some  difficulty  in  tracing  the  -history  of 
£J  Elizabeth  Heath,  as  there  were  certainly  two  or 
more  families  of  the  same  name  resident  in  Mans- 
field dufirrg  the  lifetime  of  the  foundress  of  the 
Charity,  and  the}'1  were  nearly  related.  Elizabeth  Heath 
is  described  in  several  documents  and  in  her  will,  as  the 
widow  of  Henry  Heath  ;  her  husband  appears  to  have 
had  three  brothers,  Thomas,  John  and  Richard.  Thomas 
died  about  1632.  It  is  interesting  to  note  that  the  wives 
of  John,  Richard  and  Henry  were  each  of  them  named 
Elizabeth.  The  four  brothers  were  the  sons  of  Henry 
Heath,  who  in  1614  purchased  a  house  "  situated  near 
a  Bridge  called  ye  Church  Bridge  in  Mansfield,"  from 
the  Cooke  family.  The  estate  was  of  considerable 
extent  and  there  were  tanyards  included,  the  price 
paid  being  £250,  or  thereabouts.  An  extract  from  the 
Register  of  St.  Peter's  Church,  Mansfield,  shows  that 
on  8  July,  1636,  ''Henry  Heath,  Senr,  one  of  ye  eight 
Assistants."  was  buried,  and  by  Surrender  Dated 
1637  "the  feofees  of  Henry  Heath  Decd  surrender  tene- 
ment in  Churchgate,  Mansfield,  with  Tanhouses  in  the 
occupation  of  John  and  Henry  Heath  sons  of  the  decd 
Henry  Heath"  ;  this  with  other  property  came  into 
possession  of  Henry  Heath.  The  husband  of  Elizabeth 
Heath  is  in  several  documents  described  as  a  Tanner, 
or  sometimes  a  Currier.  In  connection  with  the  property 
purchased  in  1614,  one  deed  shows  that  there  were 
as.  well  two  crofts  and  malt  kilnes  in  a  Lane  called 
Le  Blynde  Lane.  From  boundaries  given,  the  house 
seems  to  have  stood  between  The  Ram  Inn  and  the  old 
Eight  Bel'.s,  probably  next  The  Ram.  It  is  quite  possible 
that  the  old  tanyards  which  were  in  use  within  the  last 

'  The  information  has  beer;  obtained  from  ancient  deeds  and  court 
surrenders  in  the  possession  of  William  Pickard,  West  Bank,  Mansfield, 
acting  trustee. 

Vol.  a. — 1  6jc 


62  NOTES  RELATING  TO  ELIZABETH  HEATH 


twenty-five  or  thirty  years  were  on  the  site  of  the  tan- 
yards  mentioned  in  the  deeds.  At  the  back  there  Was  a 
croft  with  the  malthouses  on  its  southern  side,  thus 
accounting  for  the  ma3 tings  mentioned  as  being  in 
BIynde  Lane  ,*  malthouses  still  stand  there,  though  not 
now  used  for  their  original  purpose.2  In  the  inventory 
taken,  after  Elizabeth  Heath's  death,  of  furniture,  etc.,  in 
her  house,  there  is  mention  of  one  table  in  the  tanyard  and 
"  five  pieces  of  lead  pipe  in  the  Brige  House,  also  Hay  in 
the  Barns  and  The  Hussoilments  in  the  House,  out  houses 
and  yards,*1  so  there  is  ho  doubt  it  was  a  house  with  a 
considerable  amount  of  ground  attached. 

In  the  fust  book  of  St.  Peter's  Parish.  Registers,  the 
following  entries  occur : — "  Christened,  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  Henry  Heath  and  Elizabeth  his  wife,  July  n,  1638  ; 
Ffrances,  daughter  of  Harry  Heath  &  Elizabeth, 
March  24,  1640  ;  William,  son  of  Henry  Heath  [wife's 
name  not  mentioned],  June  26,  1650."  The  last  two  name? 
do  not  occur  in  any  of  the  deeds,  but  in  the  Marriage 
Register  of  St.  Peter's  Parish  :  "  1654,  June  22.  Mr. 
George  Griffith  of  Cambridge  and  Elizabeth  Heath  of  this 
P.  married."  This  Elizabeth  was  certainly  the  daughter 
of  Henry  and  Elizabeth  Heath,  for  lands  and  property 
were  surrendered  to  her  and  her  husband,  doubtless  as  her 
marriage  portion.  It  is  probable  there  were  no  children 
of  the  marriage,  and  that  she  pre-deceased  her  husband, 
as  in  his  will  he  bequeaths  all  the  property  that  came  td 
him  on  his  marriage  to  his  "  dear  Mother,  Elizabeth 
Heath."  He  died  in  16S6,  and  his  mother-in-law,  Elizabeth 
Heath,  was  his  sole  executrix.  He  is  described  as  M.A.  of 
Queen's  College,  Cambridge.  He  also  left  small  legacies 
to  his  wife's  "  kindred  Henry  Heath  and  his  younger 
daughter,  Anne."  The  Parish  Register  shows  that  a 
Henry  Heath  was  buried  1  Nov.,  167S,  and  as  in  a,  deed 
dated  1680  we  ted  Elizabeth  Heath  described  as  a  widow 
he  was  presumably  her  husband. 

Nothing  has  been  found  in  the  deeds  to  support  the 
popular  story  that  Elizabeth  Heath  of  the  Charity  lived 
at  The  Queen's  Head  in  Queen  Street.3  Mention  is  made 
of  a  house  called  The  Talbot  situated  in  Wass  Lane  ;  and 


'See  iBustratakm. 


*  Repeated  in  Camb.  Jnl.  ii.  405. 


NOTES  RELATING  TO  ELIZABETH  HEATH  63 


no  deeds  have  been  examined  which  relate  to  any  house 
bearing  the  name  of  The  Queen's  Head.  The  story  may 
have  arisen  from  the  fact  that  a  Henry  Heath  lived  at 
The  Talbot  in  16S9  ;  this  is  shown  by  William  Dernelley's 
surrender  of  that  date.  He  was  a  blacksmith,  and  his 
wife,  Mar}/,  was  sister  and  co-heiress  of  Henry,  William 
and  John  Heath,  deceased ;  the  property  called  The  Talbot 
was  in  the  occupation  of  Henry,  the  father  of  Mary 
Derneliey.  The  property  is  surrendered  to  William  and 
Mary  Dernelley  on  the  condition  they  pay  to  "  Elizabeth 
Heath,  widow,  the  sum  of  £102  :  10  and  forty  shillings 
and  jo/-  besides."  It  is  possible  that  The  Queen's  Head 
maybe  on  the  site  of  The  Talbot,  and  that  as  there  is  no 
mention  of  Queen  .Street  in  any  deeds,  the  distriet  round 
there  may  have  been  known  as  Wass  Lane. 

-The  Almshouses  which  Elizabeth  Heath  built  and 
endowed  in  her  lifetime  were  erected,  circa  1687,  on  what 
was  known  as  Broad  Close,  which  is  described  as  "  lying 
near  a  Lane  called  Nottingham  Lane."  The  houses  are 
twelve  in  number  ;  six  are  occupied  by  poor  persons  of 
Mansfield,  and  six  are  reserved  for  members  of  the  Society 
of  Friends.  The  Charity  also  provided  for  a  payment 
of  eight  shillings  a  month  to  the  inmates,  and  the  first 
payment  was  made  the  first  month  after  15  January, 
1691,  "  a  coat  or  gown  to  be  given  at  the  trustees  discretion 
marked  on  right  arm  E.H.  each  to  be  of  the  value  of  10/- 
and  no  more,  to  be  delivered  24th  December  in  each  year." 
*■  One  cart  waggon  or  wayne  load  of  Coals  value  6/8  to  be 
laid  down  before  their  respective  doors."  The  houses 
were  re-built  in  1855,  and,  in  1844  six  more  houses  were 
built,  which  are  occupied  by  the  poor  of  Mansfield.  The 
weekly  stipend  has  been  increased  from  time  to  time,  and 
the  initials  E.H.  are  no  longer  worn  on  the  right  arm. 
Elizabeth  Heath  left  all  her  property  connected  with  the 
Trust  to  be  administered  by  Friends  :  the  names  of  the 
first  Trustees  were  John  Hart  of  Nottingham,  Tallow 
Chandler,  Jonathan  Reckless  of  Nottingham  (son  of  John 
Reckless  the  Sheriff  of  Nottingham)  ,  miloner,  John  Seaton 
of  BSyth,  Yeoman,  Richard  Clayton  of  Chesterfield, 
Yeoman,  Robert  Moore  of  Mansfield.  Cordwainer. 

A  deed  dated  1692  refers  to  the  purchase  of  a  further 
portion  of  Broad  Close  and  mentions  it  as  lying  next 


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LETTERS  TO  DANIEL  W HEELER 


adjoining  to  the  houses  called  the  Almshouses  ;  the  Deed 
is  endorsed  M  Surrender  of  ye  back  side  of  the  Almeshouses." 

The  Friends'  Register  of  Burials  at  Nottingham 
shows  that  Elizabeth  Heath  of  Mansfield  died  24  ii.  1693. 
She  was  buried  in  the  Hospital  Grave}<Tard  at  Mans- 
field, 26  ii.  1693,  wdiere  her  tombstone  is  still  to  be  seen, 
though  the  ground  which  is  now  the  garden-  of  the  Alms- 
houses has,  of  course, long  ceased  to  be  a  burial  ground/ 
There  is  nothing  to  show  she  openly  joined  Friends, 
and  it  is  fair  to  suppose  she  did  not,  as  her  name  does  not 
appear  in  the  ancient  Book  of  Sufferings  belonging  to 
Mansfield  Meeting.  It  is  evident,  however,  that  she 
sympathized  with  Friends  and  held  them  in  high  esteem. 

Emily  Manners. 

Mansfield,  Notts. 


/jffi  SERIES  of  letters  addressed  to  Daniel  Wheeler 
pi  by  members  of  his  family,  copied  into  a  book, 
Qftr%  has  been  presented  to  Xh  by  Francis  Fox 
Tuckett,  of  Frenchay,  near  Bristol.  The  book 
was  sent  to  him  in  August,  1911,  by  Frances  Pumphiey, 
of "  Stocksheld-on-Tyne,  who  found  the  letters  among  the 
papers  of  her  aunt,  Margaret  Tanner.  The  book  bears  the 
name  of  Elizabeth  Tuckett,  who  died  in  1845.  It  passed 
from  this  Friend  into  the  possession  of  Margaret  Tanner, 
the  sister-in-law  of  Sarah  Tanner,  nee  Wheeler. 

The  following  resume  has  been  prepared  by  the 
donor : — 

"  This  book  contains  copies  of  letters  addressed  to 
Daniel  Wheeler,  then  in  England,  preparing  for  his 
Missionary  Journeys,  by  his  daughter  Sarah  and  his  son 
William,  with  some  notes  from  the  younger  daughter 
Jane.    They  are  dated  from,  the  farm  at  Shooskarry 

*See  iiiust rations. 


I 


Photo  by  R.  L.  Mannas.} 

ELIZABETH  HEATH'S  TOMBSTONE. 


I 


Photo  by  C.  S.  ttiis,  Mcinsfidd.] 

RIJATM'S  HOSPITAL,  MANS  11  ELD. 


LETTERS  TO  DANIEL  WHEELER 


65 


(marked  Schouschari  in  Slider's  Atlas)  between  St. 
Petersburg  and  Tsarskoe-Selo,  in  Russia,  where  he  had 
settled — a  place  described  as  '  on  the  edge  of  a  vast  bog, 
where  he  bored  in  vain  for  water  ' — evidently  a  most 
unhealthy  position,  as  the  sequel  shewed. 

"  The  letters  describe  in  a  graphic  and  truly  pathetic 
manner,  the  terrible  time  through  which  the  family  was 
passing,  in  the  absence  of  the  father  and  two  of  the  brothers 
(Joshua  and  Daniel). 

"  The  earliest  letter  is  dated  i2mo.  10,  1832  1  o.s.' 
and  the  latest  2 mo.  9,  1833.  The  troubles  begin  with  an 
attack  of  inflarnination  of  the  lungs  to  the  son  Charles, 
and  he  remains  an  invalid  all  through,  but  this  is 
followed  by  the  serious  illness  of  Jane  and  her  mother  with 
fever.  Jane  recovers  after  a  time  of  great  suffering,  but 
in  the  meantime  the  mother  dies,  and  the  difficult  question 
arises  where  she  is  to  be  buried.  William  then  falls  ill 
for  a  time,  and  as  he  was  the  head  of  the  establishment, 
farm  as  well  as  house,  the  position  must  have  been  doubly 
anxious  for  Sarah,  who  seems  to  have  kept  in  health, 
although,  as  she  herself  says,  a  complete  wreck  from  the 
strain.  Many  of  their  workpeople  are  down  with  fever, 
and  a  kind  neighbour,  '  E.  G.,'  who  had  nursed  Mrs. 
Wheeler  with  great  devotion,  herself  falls  ill  and  dies. 

"  Sarah  Wheeler's  letters  are  remarkable  for  genuine 
submission  to  the  Divine  Will  and  an  acknowledgment  of 
all  the  mercies  experienced  in  the  midst  of  such  great 
and  complicated  trials.  She  rejoices  that  Jane,  who 
appears  to  have  been  somewhat  thoughtless  and  vain, 
experiences  a  decided  spiritual  change,  and  Charles  shows 
evidences  of  deeper  thoughtfulnesss  (in  November  of  that 
year  he  started  as  his  father's  companion  in  his  long 
Missionary  voyage). 

"  Sarah  Wheeler  married  William  Tanner  of  Bristol, 
and  survived  her  father.  Those  who  remember  her  speak 
of  the  beauty  of  her  character. 

"  The  deadly  climate  of  Shoosharry  did  its  work 
only  too  well,  on  those  who  remained  there,  for  William 
died  in  1836  and  jane  in  1837." 


They  that  act  not  I  torn  Religion  can  never  act  rightly  /orReligiou. 
W.  Penn,  Add/ess  to  Protestants,  preface. 


"Friday,  May  22nd,  1S01.  This  evening  Dr.  Lettsom 
gave  a  rural  fete  at  Grove-hill,  his  beautiful  villa  near 
Camberwell,  to  a  numerous  but  well-selected  party  of 
his  friends,  in  a  style  we  have  seldom  witnessed. 

"  Soon  after  eight  o'clock  more  than  500  persons  were 
assembled,  a  considerable  part  of  whom  were  beautiful 
and  elegant  young  women  ;  and  contrary  to  the  usual 
practice  of  such  entertainments,  not  a  single  person 
present  found  one  moment  dull,  though  neither  cards 
nor  dancing  were  introduced.  Among  the  guests  were 
Sir  William  Hamilton  and  his  luxuriously  charming  lady  ; 
the  all-accomplished  Mrs*  Crespigny  ;  the  Archbishop  of 
Bourdeaux  ;  with  several  other  distinguished  foreigners, 
and  English  military  officers  ;  Mr.  Nelson,  brother  of  the 
gallant  Admiral ;  a  few  of  the  benevolent  society  called 
Friends  ;  many  respectable  Clergymen,  Physicians, 
Lawyers,  Merchants,  and  opulent  Citizens,  with  their 
blooming  offspring.  Two  hours  were  agreeably  passed 
in  promenading  through  the  various  well-stored  rooms  of 
the  Doctor's  very  valuable  museum  and  library,  where 
abundance  of  the  richest  curiosities  were  thrown  open  for 
the  readier  inspection  of  his  friends ;  and  all  were 
copiously  supplied  with  refreshments  of  tea,  coffee,  etc. 

"  At  10  precisely  a  species  of  enchantment  took  place,  a 
substantial  temporary  room,  100  feet  long  and  30  feet 
broad,  erected  on  the  lawn  at  the  extremity  of  the  green- 
house (the  very  existence  of  which  had  till  then  been 
admirably  concealed),  was  thrown  open  and  displayed  the 
happiest  mixture  of  elegance  and  hospitality.  The  tables 
-  "  groaned  with  the  weight  of  the  feast,"  which  consisted 
of  the  best  of  wines,  a  profusion  of  excellent  viands,  and 
abundance  of  fine  strawberries,  which  were  actually  in  a 
state  of  growth  on  the  festive  board.  The  roof  and  sides 
of  the  building  were  perfumed  with  an  immensity  of 
natural  flowers  ;  and  at  the  entrance,  on  a  small  banner  of 

1  This  will  be  read  with  interest,  following  the  account  of  Dr.  Lettsom 
in  The  British  Friend,  for  January,  by  Hubert  W.  Peet. 


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67 


white  satin,  elegantly  fringed  with  gold,  were  these 
lines  : 

To  my  best  my  friends  are  free  ; 
Free  with  that,  as  free  with  me  ; 
Free  to  eat  just  what  they  please, 
As  at  home,  and  at  their  ease. 
Free  to  stay  three  hoars  or  so, 
When  uneasy,  free  to  go. — J.C.L. 

'*  The  company  took  the  hint  ;  were  as  happy  as 
mortals  could  be  for  three  hours  ;  and  by  one  o'clock 
the  worthy  host  and  his  family  were  left  alone,  to  contem- 
plate on  the  high  satisfaction  they  had  conferred  on 
so  numerous  and  respectable  a  party." — (Gentleman's 
Magazine,  1801,  i.  476-7.) 

The  above  singular  account  we  have  only  recently 
come  across,  and  surely  no  Quaker,  before  or  since,  ever 
entertained  such  a  remarkable  company.  Special  promi- 
nence is  given  to  the  fair  sex,  and  Pettigrew,  in  his  Memoirs 
0/  Dr.  Lettsom,  alludes  particularly  to  "  His  [Dr.  Let  tsom's] 
enthusiastic  attachment  to  the  fair  sex/'  and  "  the 
company  and  the  conversation  of  enlightened  women/* 
This  exposed  the  worthy  doctor  to  many  slanderous 
stories  for  which  there  was  no  foundation,  although 
Pettigrew  says  that  his  "  unguardedness  of  behaviour 
subjected  him  to  severe  censure— he  was  imprudent,  but 
certainly  not  vicious." 

Dr.  Lettsom  was  compelled  at  an  advanced  period 
of  life  to  dispose  of  his  beautiful  villa  of  Grove  Hill  (com- 
memorated by  the  pen  of  John  Scott  of  Am  well),  and  of 
the  whole  of  his  splendid  collections  ;  one  can  hardly 
wonder  at  this  if  he  were  given  to  such  expensive  enter- 
tainments as  the  one  above  described. 

That  Dr.  Lettsom  was  a  noble-hearted,  good  arid 
humane  man  is  evidenced  by  his  friend  Pettigrew's 
Memoirs,  and  the  latter  relates  that  Dr.  Lettsom  was  a 
most  regular  attender  of  Friends'  meetings,  except,  when 
circumstances  made  it  needful  for  him  to  attend  other 
places  of  worship.  The  Doctor  held  very  advanced  views 
upon  religious  matters,  equalling  indeed  extremists  of 
to-day. 

Probably  what  Friends  considered  his  limitations 
in  this  and  other  directions  prejudiced  them  against 


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Dr.  LeUsom,  and  it  is  sad  to  notice  that  his  funeral  was 
attended  by  very  few  of  his  own  Society  ;  and  in  the  very 
Jong  list  of  subscribers  to  Pettigrew's  Memoirs,  one  is  sorry 
to  find  the  names  of  only  about  two  Friends,  the  more  so 
when  one  notices  such  names  as  Coleridge,  Wilberforce, 
Earl  Spencer,  and  many  other  eminent  men. 

Joseph  J.  Green. 


'M  Mdmt  for  &ppz$ttm%  t§t  ZmnmpQtt  of  fije 

SOGHT  notice  of  this  interesting  proposal  appeared  among  a 
list  of  preservations  to  D.  printed  in  The  Friend  (Lond.),  of 
December  27,  but  there  the  presumed  date  was  incorrectly  given. 
Charles  William  Dymond,  F.S.A.,  of  Sawrey,  Ambleside,  has  sent  us  a 
further  note  on  the  Scheme,  which  is  as  follows  : — 

"  As  neither  date  nor  signature  is  attached  to  this  production,  it  is 
desirable  that  its  provenance  and  the  reasons  for  its  attribution  should  be 
stated.    They  are  these  : — 

"  Several  years  ago  my  first  cousin,  Francis  Williams  Dymond, 
of  Exeter,  found  this  document  among  the  papers  of  his  late  father, 
Robert  Dymond,  Senr.,  whose  profession  was  that  of  a  land-agent  and 
surveyor  ;  and,  supposing — but  without  any  reason — that  the  author  was 
my  father,  William  Dymond,  he  sent  it  to  me.  It  remained  in  my 
possession  until  a  year  or  two  ago,  when  I  gave  it  to  my  cousin,  George 
Cecil  Dymond,  of  Birkenhead,  who  has  lately  presented  it  to  the  Friends' 
Central  Library. 

"  Prom  internal  evidence  it  is  clear  that  the  scheme  emanated  from 
one  of  Robert  Dymond's  four  brothers.  The  handwriting  indicates  that 
the  choice  must  lie  between  George,  the  eldest,  and  Jonathan,  to  whose 
usual  style  of  penmanship  it  bears  the  strongest  resemblance  ;  and  I  know 
of  no  reason  that  can  be  urged  against  the  supposition  that  he  was  the 
author. 

"  The  probable  date  would  be  c.  1S20,  when  Jonathan  was  twenty-four 
years  of  ace  and  Robert  twenty-two— lately  out  of  his  articles,  and 
commencing  professional  practice  on  his  own  account. 

"Charles  William  Dymond. 

"  Sawrey,  nth  January,  1913." 

The  scheme  is  presented  on  a  large  sheet  of  rough  brown  paper, 
measuring  24.1ns.  by  logins.  Half  of  this  space  is  occupied  by  live 
plans  of  the  roads  near  Topsham  and  Exeter,  and  below  is  written  the 
following  — 


TRANSPORT  OF  THE  MAILS  69 

When  Francis  Freelmg  sends  down  a  thousand  pound  for  this 
Invention  (which,  being  somewhat  tired  in  my  throat,  I  have  this  evening 
put  upon  paper),  I  intend  to  pay  thee  a  good  surveyors  fee  for  looking  at 
it  and  telling  me — 

How  fast  an  hollow  Iron  Globe,  3ft.  diameter  and  weighing  say 
20olb.  would  run  down  a  declivity  of  one  inch  in  20  ?    or  265  feet  in  a  mile  ? 

Supposing  it  to  be  12  inches  an  hour  then  on  level  ground  the  Ball 
must  be  raised  12  times  in  12  miles  to  the  height  of  265  feet.  I  suppose 
it  might  be  raised  by  simple  machinery  in  a  minute  each  which  would 
make  the  rate  of  12  miles  in  72  minutes  05  10  miles  an  hour. 

The  plans  explain  themselves — the  last  is  the  way  of  making  the 
rail  on  which  the  ball  is  to  run  (in  the  way  of  the  Menai  Bridge  but 
extremely  slight)'  The  supports  in  the  manner  of  the  mast  of  a  vessel 
which  (of  a  large  vessel)  is  I  suppose  2  or  300  hundred  feet  from  the  hold. 

My  mails  are  to  be  packed  into  the  Globe,  sent  of?  (if  you  choose) 
10  times  a  day. 

I  do  not  know  that  hilly  ground  would  be  much  obstruction  because 
you  might  gain  in  the  descent  what  you  lost  in  getting  up.  Some, 
descents  would  enable  you  to  run  several  miles  together  and  at  a  great 
rate. 

But  alas  this  "Castle"  or  rather  Bridge  "in  the  air,"  has  like 
other  Castles  an  If.  //  it  would  "run  12  miles  or  more  an  hour.  Perhaps 
it  would  not  run  6  or  3  or  2.  If  not,  no  fortune  for  me  and  no  fee  for 
my  Brother. 

2nd  day  Evg.  9  o'clock. 
I  find  I  have  really  amused  myself  by  my  employ. 

[Endorsed]  Case. 

for  the  Opinion 

of  Robert  Dymond.' 

•  .  Fee.  .  .  .  ^  . 

Conditional. 

This  is  a  good  illustration  of  the  many-sidedness  of  the  Quaker  mind. 
Jonathan  Dymond  was  linen-draper,  moralist  and  inventor  ;  Joseph 
Stores  Fry  [d.  1835]  occupied  his  pen  alike  "  On  the  Necessity  01  Freedom 
from  Sin,"  and  "  On  the  Construction  of  Wheel-Carriages  "  5  William 
Allen  [d.  1843]  was  a  manufacturing  chemist,  and  a  friend  of  Kings  and 
Emperors.  The  story  is  told  of  a  Clergyman  and  a  Quaker,  living  in  the 
same  district,  who  met  travelling,  and  engaged  in  conversation  on  some 
abstruse  literary  subject.  Said  the  Cleric,  "1  am  sure  I  have  met  you 
somewhere."  Replied  the  Quaker,  "Yes,  you  have  often  been  into  my 
shop."  On  hearing  his  companion's  name,  the  clergyman  exclaimed,  M  You 
a,  bookseller  at  !  " 

*  Another  Friend,  named  Burgess,  is  said  to  Fwe  sent  a  plan  for 
c\\pec';;mn  the  mails  between  London  and  Liverpool,  to  the  miner  of 
W.  E.  Gladstone. 


Y  the  kindness  of  George  Vaux,  of  Philadelphia,  we  are  able  to 
print  lis  extenso  a  very  interesting  manuscript,  dating  from  the 
days  of  the  Keithian  Controversy,  which  bears  the  following 
title  :— 

GOSPEL  ORDER   AND  DISCIPLINE 

in 

MEN   AND   WOMEN'S   MEETINGS   Of  FAITHFUL  FRIENDS   Of  TRUTH 

for  ye 

i:ffecting  a  store  perfect  separation  from  ye  world. 

_  I.'  j  transcription  sent  over,  from  which  the  type  has  been  set,  was 
made  fiom  a  co-temporary  manuscript  in.  George  Vaux's  possession.1 
It  should,  be  considered  in  connection  with  the  Keithite  Discipline.,  printed 
in  1693,  feopies  of  which  are  in  the  Libraries  of  Haverford  College,  Pa., 
and  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania. 

Although  the  views  held  by  George  Keith  and  his  followers  did  not 
meet  with  the  approval  of  the  general  body  of  Friends,  Keith  being 
disowned,  by  both  Philadelphia  and  London  Yearly  Meetings,  an  attentive 
perusal  of  the  following  paragraphs  will  yield  much  of  value  even  for 
the  present  Say.  The  need  for  spiritual  discerning  and  a  definite  con- 
fession of  faith  is  emphasized  ;  the  value  of  the  training  of  children  for 
reception  into  the  Society  will  impress  us  when  birthright  membership 
has  been  abolished;  the  date  of  "  Spiritual!  Birth  "  is  to  be  recorded, 
as  well  as  that  of  "  outward  birth  "  ;  all  Friends  are  urged  to  attend 
Church  meetings  ;  the  duties  of  Elders  and  Deacons  are  set  out. 

The  headings  placed  between  brackets  do  not  appear  in  the  manu- 
script. 

There  is  a  reference  to  Keith  and  these  queries  in  Quakers  in  the 
American  Colonies,  191 1,  p.  449. 

.  [Distinction  between  the  True  and  the  False.] 

1.  Seeing  yl  in  divers  places  many  are  crept  into  yc  form  &  pro- 
fession of  Friends*  way,  who  are  not  realy  friends  of  Truth  and  have 
taken  up  the  sd  outward  profession  not  from  any  true  inward  Convince- 
ment  by  y{:  Spirit  of  God  in  yr  hearte  nor  having  ye  Glory  of  God,  and 
y  Salvation  of  their  Soule  as  yc  End  why  ye  have  assumed  ye  sd 
profession,  but  some  worldly  interest  or  advantage  &c.  ?  Is  it  not 
necessary  y*  some  note  or  manner  of  distinction  as  to  the  outward  should 
be  made  betwixt  faithful!  friends  of  Truth  and  all  such  hypocrites  & 
empty  &  formal  professors  ? 

2.  Is  there  not  an  outward  Separation  as  well  as  an  inward  to 
be  made  betwixt  y*J  faithfull  and  y*  world,  and  who  are  y°  world  but  all 
hypocriticaii  professors  of  Truth  as  well  as  y«  rude  and  profane  multitude 

J  Since  the  Gospel  Or  dry  and  Discipline  has  been  in  type  another 
transcription  has  been  received,  which  appears  to  be  somewhat  more 
exact  as  to  spelling  and  contractions.    This  will  be  preserved  in  D. 


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of  all  sorts  ?  And  is  not  this  plainly  itnplyed  in  that:  parable  of  Christ 
concerning  the  net  that  being  cast  into  the  Sea,  did  draw  to  land  many 
fishes  ;  some  good  and  some  bad,  and  the  good  were  gathered  into  vessels 
but  the  bad  were  cast  away  ? 

[An  Open  Declaration  op  Faith.] 

3.  Did  not  ye  faithful  generally  in  ye  days  of  yc  apostles  joyn 
together  in  a  body  or  Society  of  people,  not  only  by  feeling  an  inward 
knitting  and  uniting  of  yr  hearts  and  Soules  together  by  the  power  and 
Spirit  of  X*  inwardly  revealed  in  ym :  which  indeed  was  ye  Main,  but  by 
some  open  declaration  &  profession  of  yr  faith  in  ye  most  principal  Ss  neces- 
sary Doctrines  of  Xtian  religion  either  before  the  Church,  or  some  faithful! 
Witnesses  ?  And  was  it  not  a  com  on  practice  in  y°  Church  in  ye  days  of 
ye  Apostles  for  everyone  to  give  a  solemn  Confession  to  yc  Truth  believed 
byy4*,  and  make  an  open  profession  of  yr  faith  in  X1  Jesus  before  ye  were 
received  into  ye  number  of  ye  faithful!  ?  And  were  ye  not  received  into  ya 
Church  by  tliis  sd  open  profession  of  yr  faith  as  it  was  felt  by  a  Spirituall 
discerning  in  ye  faithfall  to  be  real  and  sincere,  with  the  faithfull  giving 
unto  them  the  right  hand  of  fellowship,  and  allso  with  exortation  and 
prayer  frequently  attending  the  sd  practice  ?  And  though  water  baptism 
was  then  comonly  administered  after  confession  yet  seeing  it  was  but  a 
sign  or  figure  of  the  Spirituall  Baptism  and  no  gospell  precept  is  ceased 
and  y1  we  see  no  need  nor  service  to  renew  the  ceremony  of  it,  yet  whether 
Confession  be  not  a  necessary  and  serviceable  tiring  to  be  continued  in  the 
Church  as  it  was  practiced  in  the  days  of  Christ  when  in  the  flesh  and 
in  the  days  of  the  Apostles?  for  which  see  the  following  Scripture. 
Math.  10.  32  Luke  12.  S  Math.  3.  6  Acts  18.  19  Cap.  9.  26  Horn.  10. 
9ioCap.  14.  ir    2 Cor. 9. 13    1  Tim.  2.  10  Cap.  6.  12    Heb.  4.  14.  10.23. 

4.  What  is  that  profession  of  faith  frequently  mentioned  in  the  New- 
Testament  which  the  faithfull  are  required  to  hold  fast,  and  wherein  doth 
it  consist  ?  Doth  it  not  consist  in  an  open  declaration  and  Confession 
of  y«=  Truth  believed  by  yrj  as  well  as  in  External  practices  of  Temperance 
Righteousness  and  Godlyness  ?  And  as  ye  were  to  believe  with  yr 
hearts  unto  righteousness,  so  were  ye  not  to  confess  with  yr  mouths 
unto  Salvation  ? 

[A  Separated  People.] 

5.  Did  not  we  separate  from  other  Societyee,  not  only  because  of  bad 
doctrine  contrary  to  the  Holy  Scripture  received  and  held  by  them,  but 
allso,  and  that  especially,  because  of  the  vicious  life  and  evill  conversation 
and  practices  which  were  to  be  found  among  many  of  them,  though  some 
had  a  measure  of  sobriety  and  tenderness  of  hcarte,  yet  were  and  yet 
are  among  them  ;  but  because  we  found  them  too  generally  vitious  in 
their  life  and  practice,  having  a  form  of  Godlyness,  but  denying  the  power 
thereof,  and  could  not  look  upon  them  to  be  a  pure  Church,  but  rather 
a  mixed  multitude,  therefore  we  found  it  or  duty  to  separate  from  them,  ye 
which  separation  v  e  did  witness  to  be  countenanced  and  blessed  unto  us 
of  the  Lord,  ought  wc  not  therefore  to  do  or  utmost  diligence  to  be  a 
separate  people  still,  and  to  purge  out  all  the  old  leaven  that  v.  e  may 


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be  wholly  a  new  lump  ?  and  should  not  ye  Church  of  X4  be  as  a  Garden 
enclosed  where  no  weeds  nor  taies  should  grow,  although  both  are  lobe 
suffered  in  the  great  fields  of  the  World  to  grow  until  the  Harvest,  yet 
Should  not  a  plain  and  open  distinction  be  made  even  outwardly  in  yc 
sight  of  the  World,  betwixt  yc  Church  &  ye  World  as  well  as  inwardly  in 
y€  sight  Of  God,  and  yc  sight  of  those  who  see  with  an  inward  and  SpirituaJl 
Eye  and  Discerning  ? 

[A  Spik.it  of  Discerning  ix  Regard  of  Professions  of  the  Truth.] 

6.  And  if  we  use  all  due  endeavor  and  diligence  to  make  a  more 
thorro^v  and  perfect  Separation  from  the  World  have  we  not  ground  to 
expect  that  God  will  more  and  more  endue  the  faithfull  among  us  with  a 
spirit  of  discerning,  whereby  to  be  able  to  judge  who  are  indeed  worthy 
to  be  received  into  our  number,  and  who  are  not  worthy  ?  And  seeing  we 
fudge  lilt  openly  in  the  face  of  the  World  to  deny  them  who  are  openly 
vitious  though  they  keep  in  some  outward  form  and  profession  why 
Should  we  not  be  duely  careful  to  receive  none  into  our  number,  but  such 
whereof  we  have  some  proof  that  they  have  ys  due  and  necessary  quali- 
fications of  Good  Xtians,  the  which  proof  is  to  be  given  by  some  open 
declaration  of  their  faith  in  ye  most  necessary  and  weighty  Doctrines 
of  Xtian  Religion,  accompanied  with  a  Godly  sober  and  righteous  Con- 
versation and  practice ;  the  which  if  sincere  will  be  savoured  and 
discerned  infallibly  by  faithfull  friends. 

y .  IT.ive  not  all  faithfull  friends  good  experience  of  a  very  precious 
living  <k  savory  discerning  of  such,  who  are  indeed  in  the  Truth  and  live 
and  walk  in  it,  so  that  both  the  words  and  works  of  such  have  a  precious 
scent  and  savour  of  Life  ;  and  ye  face  and  countenance  of  faithfull  man 
and  woman  hath  a  living  Image,  beauty  and  glory  of  Truth  shining  in  it 
Sn/fioiently  discernable  to  the  Spirituall  eye  of  the  faithfull,  whereby  y1 
living  Epistles  writ  in  yc  heartes  of  one  another?  And  seeing  God  hath 
given  to  faithful!  Friends  such  a  pure  and  precious  discerning,  whereby  to 
put  a  difference  betwixr  the  faithful  and  the  unfaithful!,  ye  precious  and 
>^  vile,  the  clean  and  the  profane,  the  green  fresh  and  living  branches, 
&.  dry  dead  and  withered  branches  why  should  not  faithfull  Friends 
make  more  use  of  their  Spirituall  discerning  sense  and  judgement  y' 
God  hath  given  them,  whereby  first  to  prove  Men  before  they  own  them 
as  fellow  members  of  Christ's  body,  and  not  suffer  themselves  to  be 
deceived  by  a  fair  outside  show,  though  contrary  to  the  Spirituall  clis- 
o  ruing  that  God  hath,  given.  And  is  not  the  spirit  of  discerning  that 
God  giveth  in  some  measure  to  all  the  faithfull,  (though  to  some  more 
abundantly)  that  measuring  line  that  is  to  be  stretched  forth  whereby 
the  true  Xtums  an<3  true  Xtian  worshippers  are  to  be  measured  accord- 
ing to:— Jer.  cap.  31.  39  see  also  Mai.  3.  18  Ezek.  22.  26.  If  these  things 
be  granted  as  I  judge  they  will  I  do  in  the  next  place  propose  it  to  Friends 
serious  consideration  : 

[All  Friends  10  make  Occasional  Confession  of  their  Faith.] 
1st,     Whether  it.  is  not  convenient  that  all   faithfull  Friends 
of  every  meeting  who  have  good  knowledge    tnd    discerning  one 


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of  another  as  being  triiely  and  livingly  united  together  in  the  Truth, 
declare  themselves  every  one  in  a  few  words,  more  or  less  as  God  shall 
enable  them,  to  be  one  people  and  Societyee,  in  the  Truth,  and  give  a  pure 
and  holy  Confession  unto  the  Truth  in  the  most  principall  and  necessary 
Doctrines  of  ye  Truth  commonly  and  generally  received  by  Friends  ? 

[a  declaration  of  convincement  to  precede  reception  into  the 

Church.] 

2nd.  That  none  be  newly  received  into  the  number  and  Society 
of  Friends  imtill  ye  give  some  open  confession  and  declaration  of  their 
real  convincement  of  the  Truth  &;  the  most  cornon  and  generally  received 
principles  of  Christian  doctrine  by  Friends,  &  that  in  the  Men's  Meeting 
or  some  other  Meeting  appointed  by  Friends,  or  before  some  faithfuil 
Friends  who  may  give  a  faithfuil  account  of  ye  same  [to]  Friends  in  case  a 
larger  meeting  of  Friends  may  not  be  had  on  every  such  occasion,  and 
if  any  have  not  utterance  fully  and  sufficiently  to  declare  their  Convince- 
ment and  what  God  hath  wrought  in  them,  that  ye  may  answer  to  some 
few  plain  and  easy  questions,  proposed  unto  thern  by  some  faithful! 
Friends  concerning  ye  most  comon  and  necessary  principles  of  Doctrine 
received  generally  by  Friends,  by  yr  answering  to  each  question  yea  or 
nay  according  to  the  nature  of  the  question  ? 

[Reception  by  Hand-grasp,  Exhortation  and  Prayer.] 
3rd.  If  Friends  be  satisfied  with  their  declaration  &  Confession 
to  Truth  so  given  and  have  a  Spirituall  discerning  of  yr  sincerity  in  any 
measure  though  never  so  small,  that  ye  extend  and  express  yr  Christian 
Love  unto  them  by  taking  ym  by  ye  hand  or  giving  ye  hand  untoy'n,  and  as 
God  shrdl  move  and  enable  any  of  the  faithfuil  to  give  ym  a  Godly  ex- 
hortation and  pray  unto  the  Lord  for  them,  that  God  may  be  pleased 
to  give  more  of  his  spirit  unto  them,  and  to  Confirm  and  establish  them  in 
the  Truth  &  cause  them  to  grow  and  increase  in  it  ? 

[Test  of  Membership  Spiritual  not  Outward.] 
4th.  That  though  ye  speaking  of  ye  playn  Language  and  denying 
'•f  cornon  and  vain  Salutations  of  yft  World  6c  coming  to  Meeting  are  good 
things  ;  being  sincerely  performed  and  a  part  of  our  testimony,  yet  yl  ye 
may  not  be  esteemed  by  Friends  as  any  full  test  or  Touchstone  of  TryaU 
or  mark  of  distinction  whereby  to  own  any  to  be  members  of  our  holy 
Society,  because  of  ye  outward  practice  of  these  things,  but  y*  yc  only 
full  Test  and  Touchstone  received  by  us  be  y'~,  we  find  men  in  the  Truth 
to  live  and  walk  in  it,  and  being  in  the  Spirit  and  form  of  Truth,  not  in 
some  part  of  it  but  in  all  the  other  parts  generally  received  and  practiced 
by  faithful  Friends  as  God  hath  revealed  it  unto  us,  y*  is  to  say,  in  yc 
form  of  sound  words  of  Doctrine  according  to  yc  holy  Scripture  &  all 
holy  outward  practices  of  a  holy  sober,  &  righteous  Life  &  Conversation 
in  all  honesty,  Righteousness,  Temperance  and  other  Xtian  virtues  ? 

[CONVINCEMEXT  AND   RECEPTION   OP  CHILDREN'.] 

5th.  That  all  Friends  having  children,  come  to  years  of  discretion 
whom  ye  have  instructed  in  y*  principles  &  way  of  Truth  St  y*  yc  find  God 


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hath  blessed  their  pious  Labours  in  y*  respect,  so  y£  ye  have  a  sense 
of  yr  Chiidreiis  inward  state,  3$  God  hath  opened  yr  understanding  and 
begun  his  good  work  in  yni,  yl  ye  further  labour  with  yr  Children  to  be 
instrumental  to  have  ym  made  willing  and  desirous  to  be  received  into  the 
m;mber  aad  Society  of  Friends  in  the  manner  above  mentioned,  which 
thing  may  prove  a  great  good  to  their  children,  and  especially  of  their 
preservation  from  y°  Spirit  of  yc  World  and  Defilements  thereof. 

[No  Marriage  with  Newly-Received  Friends.] 

6.  That  no  Friends  joyn  in  marriage  with  any  but  such  as  are 
-received  into  ye  Society  of  Friends  by  a  solemn  Confession  of  yr  faith 
&  profession  of  Truth  in  manner  aforesaid  sometime  before  they  bring 
their  intentions  of  mn mage  before  a  meeting  of  Friends. 

.[DlSOWNMENT   AND  RESTORATION.] 

7.  That  all  professing  the  Truth  who  are  known  to  be  victious  in 
yr  Life  and  Conversation  be  openly  derived  &  disowned  without  all 
partiality  $  respect  of  persons  &  y*  none  so  denyed  be  received  again 
m£p  unity  and  fellowship  with  Friends,  as  members  of  their  holy  Society 
untiil  faithfull  Friends  be  satisfy  ed  by  an  inward  Spiritual!  discerning  of 
their  real  and  sincere  repentance  &  returning  again  to  ye  Truth  in  faith  & 
Love,  and  that  all  such  who  do  so  return  give  an  open  declaration  by 
word  of  Mouthe  before  Friends  in  a  Meeting,  as  well  as  by  writ  to  be 
recorded  of  yr  sincere  repentance. 

[Registration  of  Coxvtncemenis  and  Conversions.] 

8.  Whether  it  may  not  be  convenient  y'  yc  names  of  all  true  and 
faithful!  Friends  belonging  to  every  Meeting,  who  are  received  into  the 
number  of  Friends  of  yl  meeting  by  yc  comon  consent  of  Friends  be 
writ  and  recorded  in  a  book  belonging  to  ye  Monthly  Meeting  which  may 
prove  a  witness  &  evidence  of  ye  faithfulness  of  such  as  continue  in  yc 
Truth  &■  of  the  unfaithfulness  of  such  if  yc  depart  from  it,  which  will  be 
the  greater  agravation  and  lay  yc  greater  load  upon  yia,  when  ye  are  put 
in  remembrance,  if  by  y"  own  consent  or  Subscription  y*  names  were  en- 
rolled into  ye  number  of  faithfull  Friends,  &  so  in  its  place  may  be  made 
use  of  m  the  wisdom  of  God  to  move  them  either  not  to  depart,  or  having 
departed  to  return  ;  for  some  having  professed  Truth  in  part  &  departed 
from  t  lie  same  when  dealt  with  to  return,  have  said  the}'  were  never  in  the 
same  profession  with  Friends,  so  excusing  their  departing  ;  whereas  their 
navies  standing  on  record  by  yr  own  consent  or  by  yr  own  Subscription 
would  Witness  against  them,  and  too  many  Children  of  Friends  who 
were  reckoned  Friends  and  practiced  the  form  of  Truth  in  some  tilings, 
have  left  off  the  form  of  Truth  and  left  off  coming  to  Friends  meetings, 
and  have  gone  to  the  priests  and  to  the  vain  customs  and  ways  of  the 
Wdrld  denyed  by  Friends,  and  when  blamed  by  their  parents  &  other-, 
they  have  excused  themselves  by  saying  they  were  never  convinced  of  the 
Truth  of  Friends  religion  but  did  only  some  outward  things  or  come  to 
Meetings  to  please  their  parents.  And  seeing  Friends  think  convenient 
to  insert  the  names  pi  y*  Childrens  outward  birth  and  the  time  thereof 


GOSPEL  ORDER  AND  DISCIPLINE"  75 


in  a  Eooke,  is  it  not  of  greater  weight  and  as  tending  more  to  the  comfort 
both  Parents  and  Children  y1  ye  day  of  yr  Spirituall  Birth  be  recorded 
in  Friends  book  to  witt  how  soon  it  is  felt  or  understood  y*  God  hath 
begun  his  good  work  in  them  and  hath  begot  in  them  the  true  knowledge 
&  Love  of  ye  Truth  &  Friends  of  it  by  which  they  have  been  made  williag 
and  desirous  to  declare  their  being  united  and  joyij&d  with  Friends  but 
not  as  yl  a  great  necessity  is  to  be  laid  of  recording  Friends  names  in  a 
Book  only  that  it  may  have  a  present  conveniency. 

[Meetings  of  all  Friends  and  the  Importance  of  Attendance.] 
9.  Whether  ye  Body  of  ye  Mens  Meeting  should  not  consist  of  all 
faithfull  men  Friends,  likewise  ye  Womens  Meeting  of  all  faithfull  women 
Friends .  8c  whoever  whether  men  or  women  come  not  to  the  Mens 
and  Womens  Meetings,  (except  in  case  of  necessity  y*  may  hinder  ym) 
their  not  coming  if  they  frequently  abstain  giveth  not  just  occasion  to 
faithfull  Friends  to  judge  them  negligent  &  worthy  of  reproof  when  once 
it  is  understood  y*  it  is  y«  unanimous  judgement  of  faithfull  Friends  y* 
all  should  come  to  these  meetings  ;  for  in  the  days  of  the  Apostles  we  find 
it  yl  when  ye  waighty  affairs  of  yR  Church  required  not  only  the  Elders,  but 
the  Church  did  together  with  the  Apostles  and  Elders  assemble  together 
to  consult  &  resolve  in  ye  Wisdom  and  Spirit  of  God  what  was  fttt  to  be 
done  as  doth  plainly  appear  from  :  Acts  15.  22.  26  and  thereis  great  cause 
why  it  should  be  that  all  the  faithfull  should  meet  together  in  such 
meetings  y*  concern  y°  good  of  ye  whole,  first  because  though  all  the 
faithfull  are  not  Elders  ;  yet  ye  are  all  members  of  Christ's  Body  and 
every  true  member  of  ye  Body  hath  a  measure  of  ye  Spirit  of  Xc  and 
therefore  every  member  may  have  a  service  in  the  Church  ;  yc  younger 
in  their  places  as  well  as  y*  Elder  in  their  places,  and  it  may  please  God 
sometimes  to  reveal  to  ye  younger  what  at  first  is  not  revealed  to  yc  Eider 
even  as  David  said  he  knew  more  than  the  antients,  Secondly  though  all 
do  not  help  with  outward  testimony  allways  of  Words,  yet  by  the  Life  and 
Virtue  that  is  in  every  faithfull  member  the  whole  assembly  is  yc  more 
refreshed,  and  ye  Elders  are  allso  thereby  more  helped,  strengthened  and 
encouraged  in  the  work  and  service  of  Truth.  Thirdly  because  what  is 
donein  all  mens  and  womens  Meetings  is  to  be  judged  as  done  by  the  whole 
Church  in  that  place  and  therefore  should  have  ye  consent  of  ye  whole 
Church  :  which  cannot  be  unless  they  be  present  to  signifie  it  either  by 
word  or  silence,  nor  Is  it  enough  to  say  the  Elders  are  representatives  of 
ye  Church;  &  therefore  whatever  y«  Eiders  do  ought  to  be  binding  and 
obliging  to  the  whole  a.s  in  Nationall  and  Provincial  Assemblyes.  Those 
who  are  commissioned  by  the  people  represent  the  people,  and  the  com- 
missioners act  is  the  peoples  act;  for  as  the  Church  of  God  in  other 
respects  doth  greatly  differ  from  worldly  Governments,  so  in  this  for  we 
find  that  even  the  Apostles  of  the  Lord  did  not  these  things  without  the 
Consent  both  of  the  Elders  and  Church  assembled  together,  as  in  the 
place  above  mentioned  doth  plainly  appear  .Acts  15  compared  with  Math. 
18.  17  and  so  the  Spirit  of  Loue  Judgement  and  discernment  is  promised 
and  given  to  all  faithfull,  why  should  any  be  excluded  from  what  is  their 
just  right  ? 


76       "GOSPEL  ORDER  AND  DISCIPLINE" 


[Appointment  of  Elders  and  Deacons.] 
io.  Whether  there  should  not  be  Elders  and  Deacons  chosen 
apoynted  and  named  by  yc  Church,  as  were  in  yc  Church  in  ye  Apostles 
days  who  are  known  by  name  to  do  these  services  in  ye  Church  that  are 
proper  to  them,  for  though  in  most  Meetings  there  are  faithfull  Men  who  by 
a  Jiving  growth  in  the  Truth  are  grown  up  from  a  state  of  Children  ic 
Babes  in  Xc  to  be  both  Fathers  and  Elders  in  the  Church,  whom  the  holy 
Spirit  of  Truth  hath  made  overseers  in  the  Clmrch,  and  that  they  are  well 
known  and  owned  so  to  be  in  the  Church,  yet  for  order  sake  and  for  the 
cause  of  those  who  are  but  weak  and  short  of  y*  present  discerning  & 
who  are  ready  to  say  as  some  have  said  these  Men  take  too  much  upon  ym 
and  assume  a  rule  over  us  without  our  consent,  Is  it  not  fitt  and  con- 
vemeiit  ^Jiat  fhough  these  Men  are  indeed  Elders  in  the  Church  and 
Deaxons,  be  nominated  by  the  consent  of  ye  whole  Church  with  the  help 
and  assistance  of  some  able  Friends  of  the  ministry  who  labour  among 
them  in  Word  and  Doctrine.  The  proper  service  of  the  Elders  being  to 
oversee  and  inspect  into  ye  orderly  walking  of  all  under  the  profession 
of  Truth,  and  seasonable  to  exhort,  advise  and  reprove  as  occasion  is  given 
and  allso  to  have  an  authority  over  the  younger  in  ye  Spirit  and  power 
and  Life  of  Truth  not  lording  it  over  their  consciences  but  watching  over 
y™,  y*  they  may  be  preserved  from  all  the  snares  of  the  enemy,  who  ought 
to  be  worthyly  esteemed  for  their  works  sake  by  the  whole  Church.  And 
ya  proper  service  of  the  Deacons  being  partly  to  assist  the  Elders  and 
partly  to  gather  the  collections  of  the  Church,  and  by  the  Churches  advice 
to  dispose  of  thern  to  the  poor  and  other  pious  uses. 

[Infallible  Guidance  for  Church  Ordering.] 
xi.  Thoughweare  not  to  place  infallibility  upon  any  Man  or  number 
of  Men  in  all  things  and  cases  and  especially  in  things  not  manifestly  re- 
vealed, yet  whether  faithfull  Friends  assembled  together  in  the  name  of 
our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  and  feeling  his  presence  in  the  midst  of  them  may 
not  expect  his  infallible  guiding  &  direction  &  an  infallible  discerning  in 
such  particular  things  and  cases  which  are  altogether  needful  for  the 
good  and  preservation  of  the  Church  and  for  keeping  and  establishing 
good  order  among  them  ? 

[Sound  Knowledge  and  Spiritual  Aeility  to  Precede  Ministry.] 
12.  Whether  some  great  care  is  not  to  be  taken  by  able  and  faithfull 
Friends  of  the  Ministry  to  whose  faithfull  Labours  God  hath  set  his  sea! 
and  greatiy  blessed  with  success  together  with  the  Elders  and  Church  to 
prevent  that  disorder  which  sometimes  happeneth  when  some  raw  and 
unseasoned  persons  have  presumed  to  speak  and  to  pray  in  Meetings,  who 
are  not  sound  in  knowledge  and  have  not  received  a  true  Spirituall  ability 
and  discretion  for  such  a  Work  ;  and  therefore  whether  (unless  in  son:c 
extraordinary  case  which  may  be  seen  &  understood)  Men  should  not 
give  some  proof  of  their  sound  knowledge  experience  &  Spirituall  ability 
to  their  Elder  Brethren  &  to  ye  Church  before  they  presume  that  Liberty 
to  preach  &  pray  in  open  Assernblyee. 

The  MS.  is  endorsed  :  "  Articles  of  George  Keith  for  his  proselytes 
to  signe  before  they  receive  admittance  into  his  church  fellowship*  *' 


Sin  JtnecWe  utdtxnQ  to  (WxUxam  fgavrtson, 
of  (§t\(\^ion 


ARBARA  GOLD  HARRISON  relates  that  from  her  father,  John 
Harrison,  she  heard  the  following  remarkable  circumstance  of  his 
grandfather,  William  Harrison1 : — 
As  he  was  crossing  Emsworth  Common,  between  Brighton  and 
Portsmouth,  he  was  overtaken  by  a  man  with  a  horse  and  pots,  and  after 
going  a  little  way  together,  lie  requested  W.  H.  to  keep  on  his  horse,  and 
he  would  return  soon.  He  not  coming  back  Wm.  H.  looked  for  him,  in 
vain,  but  soon  saw  two  men  riding  fast  toward  him. 

They  asked  him  how  he  came  by  that  horse  ;  he  replied  a  man  had 
requested  him  to  keep  it  on  a  little  way,  but  that  he  did  not  return. 
They  informed  him  that  the  horse  was  loaded  with  stolen  plate.  He  said 
he  knew  nothing  of  it  ;  they  replied  that  as  he  was  taken  with  it,  with 
it  he  must  go.  So  they  took  him  before  a  justice  and  he  was  committed 
to  prison,  and  there  remained  till  the  assizes  came  on.  He  was  tried  and 
condemned — 'Sentence  was  passed  that  he  was  "  to  go  from  whence  he 
came  and  then  to  the  place  of  execution,  there  to  be  hanged  until  he  go 
dead."  On  his  return,  finding  himself  thirsty,  he  desired  to  go  into 
the  inn;  they  informed  him  he  might  go  upstairs;  he,  being  heavily 
ironed,  told  them  he  could  not  go  without  assistance.  He  called  for  a 
bottle  of  Canary,  but  when  it  was  brought  before  him.  he  said  that  he 
had  been  thirsty,  but  that  now  he  could  not  drink  it.  "  I  never  thought 
T  should  die,  but  now  death  looked  me  in  the  face."  He  then  requested 
the  men  who  had  charge  of  him  to  help  him  across  the  room  for  he  had  a 
desire  to  look  out  of  the  window.  There  he  sa.w  a  man  filling  a  dnngcart 
and  he  knew  him  to  be  the  man  from  whom  he  took  the  horse.  He 
asked  the  men  if  they  did  not  see  him,  and  desired  them  to  go  down, 
and  tell  him  there  was  a  person  wished  to  speak  to  him.  They  went 
and  the  man  came.  When  he  entered  the  room  he  made  a  bow  and 
said,  "  Your  servant,  Sir,  I  am  glad  to  see  you."  W.  H.  told  him  he  did 
not  know  what  to  say  to  that.  The  man  told  him  lie  knew  of  his  trial 
and  condemnation,  and  could  not  keep  from  the  place.    "  Had  you  been 

1  William     Harrii>on=-Mary  .... 
of  Brighton, 
b.  circa  160^51.  168^  | 

William  Harrison~Frusannah  Nelson,  a  well-known  Mimster. 

of  Poole,  b.  c.  1669,  d.  1739. 

b.  c.  1667,  d.  3733  1 

I 

John  Harrison" Mary  Linthorne 

of  Poole,       j  b.  1707,  d.  17S4. 

b,  1700,  d.  1773  J 

I  ! 
Barbara  Gold  Harrison 
o.  1739,  d.  1824. 

Vol.  X.—  113.  77 


78     JOHN  H.  DILLINGHAM  AT  A  FUNERAL 


upon  the  ladder,"  said  he,  "  I  should  have  saved  year  life,  and  not  have 
had  an  innocent  man  die  in  my  stead."  The  man  was,  on  this,  taken  up 
and  carried  to  prison,  and  W,  H.  with  him,  till  next  assizes  when  the  man 
was  tried,  condemned  and  hung,  and  YV.  II.  acquitted. 

This  account  was  taken  down  by  Susannah  Kemp*  from  Barbara  G. 
Harrison. 

From  a  MS.  in  possession  of  the  Editor. 


JfaJpn  %.  ©tf?mg(>am  at  a  JUnitraf 

N  the  chapter  on  John  Dillingham  the  Teacher,  an  instance  is  narrated 
in  which  there  was  a  manifest  advantage  to  the  religious  ssrvice 
of  our  Friend,  in  being  late  at  a  funeral.  Another  striking 
instance  of  the  kind  afforded  unusual  confirmation  of  the  words  of  :i 
^deceased  Friend,  and  gave  the  people  of  the  village  where  it  occurred,  a 
most  impressive  sense  of  his  personal  devotion  to  the  family  concerned, 
as  well  as  of  his  willingness  to  discharge  his  religious  duties  at  whatever 
cost.  Having  missed  the  only  possible  train  available  from  Camden 
for  the  funeral  in  question,  John  Dillingham  boarded  an  express  train 
to  Atlantic  City,  thirty  miles  distant  by  bicycle  from  the  place  of  his 
appointment.  The  funeral  company  gathered  at  the  house  as  arranged, 
and  sat  for  about  an  hour  in  silence.  Most  of  those  present  were  not 
Friends,  and  it  seemed  to  them  slight  respect  was  shown  to  one  who  had 
been  known  in  their  midst  for  thirty  years  for  liberality  in  entertaining 
members  of  her  society.  The  funeral  ha.d  moved  from  the  house,  and  as 
the  burial  ground  was  near,  a  few  minutes  would  suffice  to  conclude  the 
last  sad  rites  for  a  beloved  mother  and  sister.  At  this  juncture  John 
Dillingham  was  seen  apr>roaching  upon  a  wheel  from  the  direction  of 
Atlantic  City.  He  had  ridden  the  thirty  miles  in  a  very  short  time  and  had 
reached  his  destination  at  the  critical  moment.  Means  were  found  of 
giving  him  some  refreshment  promptly,  and  as  the  company  closed  in 
about  the  open  grave,  he  moved  forward  with  a  testimony  that  seen-.ed  to 
favor  more  of  heaven  than  of  earth.  Then  he  knelt  in  prayer,  and  ail  were 
baptized  together  in  a  memorable  manner.  One  of  the  principals  in  this 
remarkable  scene  had  remembered,  and  had  remarked  when  the  train  had 
failed  to  bring  John  Dillingham,  how  the  deceased  had  said  on  more  than 
one  occasion,  when  the  narrative  in  Biographical  Sketches  of  an  incident 
in  the  life  of  Arthur  Howell  had  been  read  to  her,  picturing  bow  he  had 
driven  some  miles  to  join  a  surprised  company  about  an  open  grave,  that 
something  like  that,  she  felt,  would  happen  at  her  funeral. 

From  the  Life  of  John  H[c'ag]  Dillingham,  written  by  J.  Henry 
Bartlett,  pp.  130,  131. 

2  Susannah  Kemp,  nSe  Home  (179.;- 1882),  of  Brighton.  Her  sister, 
Sarah  Home,  married  George  Penney,  of  Poole,  who  was  Barbara  GoH 
id arrison' s  nephe w . 


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ecca  Smith, 
daughter  of 
Francis  and 
Ruth  (Gulson) 
Smith,  of 
D  r-caster. 


Sarah, 
d.  1821. 


Samuel  *=  Deborah  Barnard, 
fa-  I/55-  I  daughter  of  John 
m.  1776.  j        Barnard,  of 
d.  1796.  '  Upperthorpe. 

fa-  I754- 
d.  1810. 


Rachel, 
d.  ye. 


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b. 

m.  1658.  j 


Abraham  »AHi;v  =  Marv  sc-rje 
b.  167S.  d.  171S. 

m.  1609. 
d.  1717.  : 


SAMUEL  .M 

b.  1667. 
111.  1694. 
d.  1730. 


>-•  Rachel  Warren. 


 and  otlu 


Kciaund. 
b.  171.2. 
d.  1756. 


Margaret  Smiths  Abraham  Daruy=Abiah  (Maude)  Sinclair  =Jo 


about  1 
■  745- 
1/94- 


Darin, 
b. 

d.  1756. 


Hannah  s  Richard  Reynolds 
b.  1735-  :  b.  1735. 


Mary = Joseph  Kathbone.  Abraham  Dakb-s 

b.   174S.    d.  1700.  b.  1750. 

m.  176?..  m.  177C 

d,  1S07.  d.  17S9. 


Sarah. 
0.  '7.S=. 

d.  iSn. 


} ; a  r  m  u\\. 
■  of  John 
ird,  of 


B'jdtatts  from  t$t  9&icxp  ©f 


BIAH  DARBY  (1716-1794)  was  the  youngest 
child  of  Samuel  and  Rachel  (Warren)  Maude, 
of  Sunderland.  Samuel  Maude  (c.  1667-1730) 
was  a  native  of  Leeds,  and  in  early  days  a  Pres- 
byterian. When  eighteen  he  removed  to  Sunderland,  to 
reside  with  his  Quaker  uncle,  William  Maude,  and  soon 
afterwards  attached  himself  to  Friends  (Testimony  in  D.). 
Abiah  Darb}^  first  exercised  a  ministry  of  the  Gospel  when 
about  thirty-three,  although  years  before  she  had  felt 
a  call  thereto.  Of  her  first  husband,  John  Sinclair,  she 
wrote  in  her  Diary,  evidently  some  time  subsequent  to  his 
death  : — 

About  this  time  among  other  young  Friends,  women  as  well  as 
men  whom  I  was  acquainted  with,  One  young  man  who  simpathized 
with  me  and  often  spoke  to  my  State,  insensibly  drew  my  weak  tender 
mind  into  Friendship  for  him  and  b}^  degrees  I  let  my  Affection  go 
too  much  Out  in  harkening  to  Ms  Offers  which  hurt  me  in  my  inward 
Exercise.  Nothing  can  plead  my  excuse  but  youth  and  inexperience. 
..As  this  increased,  and  I  had  so  long  resisted  the  heavenly  vi -ion . . 
The  Lord  was  pleased  to  withdraw  his  high  Commission  from  me.  I 
have  loDg  deplored  my  Loss  with  bitter  moan.. My  suffering:-;  were 
Great... I  humbly  trust  accepted  and  deem'd  snffecient. 

The  Friend  was  religious,  .had  a  Gift  in  the  Ministry .. and 
travelled  some  in  Truths  Service,  .but  my  Friends  were  against  him  as 
he  had  not  so  much  in  the  World  as  I  had.  .however  my  Mother  in  the 
end  gave  consent,  and  she  died  a  little  time  after  we  were  married. 
But  this  conduct  of  mine  quenched  the  holy  Spirit  in  me,  filling  my 
mind  with  the  cares  of  Life  in  my  tender  yer-rs.  But  it  lasted  not  long 
.  .he  died  before  I  was  twenty-one.  I  had  one  child  called  Rachel  which 
died  before  its  father  in  the  Small  Pox.  He  departed  in  Peace  and 
Assurance  of  Eternal  Happiness.  All  the  time  1  was  married,  which  was 
about  two  years  or  upwards.  .1  remained  poor  and  barren  in  Spirit,  as 
one  left  alone. 

In  the  certificate  of  her  marriage  with  Abraham 
Darby,  in  1745,  she  is  described  simply —  Abiah  Sinclair 
of  Kendal/'  without  mention  of  her  parents  or  that  she- 
was  a  widow. 

The  printed  extracts  from  her  Diary  shed  considerable 


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light  upon  a  somewhat  dark  period  of  Quakerism 
historically.  The  rapid  alternations  of  her  preaching 
journeys  with  additions  or  expected  additions  to  her 
family — her  entertainment  of  noted  people  and  her 
prayers  at  meal-times — her  attendance  and  vocal  exer- 
cises at  meetings  of  other  Christians — her  astronomical 
observations — her  contact  with  the  saintly  Fletcher  of 
Madeley — all  present  a  picture  of  middle  eighteenth 
century  Quakerism  well  worthy  of  study. 

The  following  Extracts  are  taken,  by  permission 
of  John  T.  Dickinson,  of  Bloxham  Lodge,  near  Banbury, 
from  a  closely  written  book  of  175  pages  folio,  in  his 
possession,  commencing  1745  and  ending  1769.  Many 
sermons  and  letters  are  given  at  length.  The  book  is 
in  different  handwritings,  so  that  it  is  possible  that 
some  of  the  later  parts  were  dictated. 

1746 

Little  Rachel1  was  born.. the  child  only  lived  15 
weeks.  I.  was  in  a  poor  low  state  of  health  for  a  pretty 
while  after,  being  inclined  to  a  Consumption.  The 
Physician  advised  me  to  leave  water  drinking  which  I  had 
done  wholly  for  many  years  in  dislike  to  an}'  other  &  to 
bear  my  testimon}-'  against  one  who  had  made  all  Illuse 
of  Malt  and  other  Liquors.  I  took  to  Small  Bear  but  did 
not  like  it  so  well  as  water. 

viii.  4.    Birth  of  my  Mally.2 

First  spoke  in  Meeting. 

In  a  few  weeks  after  Ann  Sumerland^  appeared  [in 
the  ministry].  I  was  truly  thankful  that  I  had  appeared 
first,  for  the  Enemy  would  certainly  have  suggested 

1  Thero  h?.x\  been  an  earlier  Rachel  by  the  first  marriage,  See 
Tabid 

*  Mary,  afterwards  Rathbone. 

3  Ann  Sumraerland  (1709-1798),  was  daughter  of  Joshua  and 
Rebecca  Waierhouse,  of  Dronfidd,  co.  Derby.  In  early  life  she  lived 
as  a  servant  in  the  hoi^e  of  Joseph  Freetb,  of  Coventry.    She  married, 

VliStt  John  Sumnierlnnd,  and  removed  tG  Coaibrookclale.  Her 
miaLlerial  journeys  were  frequent,  but  confined  to  the  British  IsicS. 
MS.  Testimony  in  D. 


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my  concern  only  sprung  from  Something  of  Desire  to 
put  myself  fonvard. 

1750 

iv.  24.    I  was  delivered  of  my  son  Abraham. 

We  were  constant  in  attending  Meetings.  Before 
I  came  here  the  Meeting  was  on  First  days  held  at 
Rrosele}'/  an  ancient  Place,  no  Friends  being  on  this 
side  of  the  Water, s  till  my  Husbands  Father  came  into  this 
Country,  and  for  long  after  no  Meeting  held  on  this  side 
except  occasionally.  My  Dear  Husband  used  to  go 
sit  by  himself  twice  on  first  days  and  fourth  days  at  a 
Meeting  house  set  apart  by  the  late  Richard  Ford6  and 
which  I  did  hear  lie  intended  to  give  Friends,  but  his  son 
refused  to  give  it  up  as  his  Father  made  no  will., 
but  let  Friends  meet  in  it,  and  Sister  Mary  Ford  became  a 
constant  attender  of  the  Meeting  with  her  daughters  and 
some  of  her  sons.  On  the  sixth  day  of  the  week  we 
held  a  Meeting  in  our  laundry  where  some  attended. 

hi.  I  set  out . .  Warrington,  Penketh,  Lancaster., 
several  Friends  in  Company  but  the}7  rid  so  fast  it  hurt 
me.  .Next  day  some  Men  Friends  had  a  deal  of  talk  about 
the  reconing,  it  gave  me  pain  and  I  thought  to  have  put 
down  double  rather  than  have  words  about  a  trifle  (I 
payd  for  My  Self  &  horse) . .  Had  a  bad  fall,  my  horse  came 
down,  hurt  my  knees  pretty  much . .  Kendal Preston 
Patrick  . .  Brigflatt  . .  Raby  . .  Auckland  .  .  at  Meeting  I 
missed  my  right  time  which  hurt  me  but  it  was  my  fault .  . 
Sunderland.  Here  at  their  First  day  Meeting  I  had  to 
open  my  mouth,  with  the  very  words  I  spoke  when  hrst 
appeared .  .And  had  to  tell  them  that  they  were  the 
same  words  I  should  have  appeared  with  among  them 
sixteen  years  ago  had  I  given  up  to  the  Heavenly  vision 
as  I  ought  to  have  done  But  through  great,  disobedk-nce 
and  the  slavish  fear  of  Man  I  refused  and  was  only  as 
a  Dwarfi  in  true  Religion  . .  We  carne  pretty  direct  home . . 

4  Broseley,  an  ancient  stronghold  of  Friends  in  the  early  davs, 
was  situate  on  the  sou  th  side  of  the  river  Severn,  Coalbrookdale  being 
on  the  other  side  of  the  valley  through  which  the  river  flows. 

s  Thai,  is,  North  of  the  river  Severn,  as  it  flows  through  the  t>alt. 

6  Richard  Lord  (d.  1745)  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Abraham  and 
Mary  Darby,  in  171 8. 


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arrived  safe  and  sound  and  found  our  Children  well  which 
was  a  great  favour . , Mally  had  had  the  Measles  badly 
but  was  preserved  through. 

6rno.  Was  laid  up  very  ill.. the  pain  in  my  side 
&  stomach  was  hard  to  bear.  And  how  I  took  Cyder  I 
cannot  tell  but  I  did,  and  gott  well  of  my  complaint 
and  have  never  had  it  since  and  the  harsher  the  Cyder 
the  better.  Yea  so  sharp  I  have  long  continued  to  drink 
it  that  it  would  make  my  eyes  water  &  others  called  it 
Vinegar  yet  it  hurt  me  not.. and  still  continue  it  to 
this  day  My  constant  Liquor. 

1752 

I  was  delivered  of  My  Sally  8th  mo.  24th. 
1753 

In  the  Spring  altho  a  nurse,  went  with  my  Dear 
Husband  to  our  Welsh  Yearly  Meeting  at  Abergivanny7 
24th  4  mo.  left  nay  Sally  to  the  care  of  a  neighbour,  .had 
a  bad  journey  bad  roads.. I  got  such  a  bad  cold  could 
hardly  attend  Meetings  or  do  business  but  did  attend., 
had  Great  Waters  to  come  through  in  returning  and  very 
difficult  coming  but  got  safe  home. 

I  found  an  engagement  upon  my  mind  to  write  a 
letter  to  a  person  [Brook  Forrester]  who  was  called  a 
Gentleman  and  a  leading  man  in  this  Count}'  whose 
example  did  not  correspond  with  his  station  in  Life. 

4mo.  26th.  My  husband,  Daughter  Hannah  and 
myself  set  out  with  several  Friends  from  hence,  14  horses, 
for  our  Yearly  Meeting  at  Swansy .  .hired  a  guide  over 
the  Mountains .  .lost  our  way,  the  guide  could  not  speak 
Welsh  nor  none  of  us.  .went  to  a  Cottage,  .a  poor  Welsh 
woman  whom  we  made  signs  to  get  up  behind  Richard 
Phillips3  and  conducted  us  into  the  right  road.  .Most  of  us 
gave  her  money  but  was  obliged  to  force  her  to  take  it, 

7  The  Yearly  Meeting  for  Wales  (including  the  counties  of  Mon- 
mouth and  Salop)  was  set  up  at  the  instigation  of  Richard  Davics 
(1635-1707 /$)  in  16S1,  ana  was  held  at  various  places  from  1602  to l$97* 
It  was  one  of  soi.no  half  dozen  Y.M.'s,  circulating  in  certain  districts  of  the 
country,  attended,  by  large  numbers  of  travelling  Ministers  and  local 
residents.  A  complete  list  of  the  places  where  the  Welsh  Y.M.'s  were 
held  is  printed  in  The  Friend  (Lond.).  1870,  p.  15. 

8  Richard  Phillips  (d.  1772),  cfcMadeley. 


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she  was  so  disinterested .  .got  safe  home  and  found  my  dear 
Babes  well. 

On  5th  of  6  mo  set  out  with  My  Dear  Husband  to 
London.. got  well  there. 

Our  Daughter  Hannah  went  in  a  Boat  to  Worcester 
to  bring  from  thence  our  honourable  Worthy  Friends 
Grace  Chambers?  &  Cousin  Lydia  Lancaster.10 

1755 

irao.  14th.  Was  taken  ill  and  on  the  16th  was 
delivered  of  my  son  Samuel. 

41110.  29th.  Gentlemen  here,  in  my  mind  often 
especially  when  such  are  here  engaged  to  address  the 
Great  Name  at  Table. 

7mo.  2nd.  The  High  Sheriff  Francis  Turner  Blyth 
Esqk  and  Edward  Blake  way  dined  here. 

1756 

imo.  31st.  First  Waggon  of  Pigs  came  down  the 
Railway. 

[A  Series  of  accidents  recorded  in  this  year.]  The 
man  let  the  Horse  and  Chaise  fall  over  the  Hill,  the 
horse  got  no  hurt — my  Husband  slipd  down  stairs  with 
Sally  in  his  arms  but  was  little  worse — Cousin  Darby 
Ford,"  My  husbands  own  Nephew  fell  into  the  New  Pool 
and  was  drowned — My  Husbands  only  Brother  Edmund 
Darby  fell  from  his  horse  near  Olbrighten  [Albrighton] 
and  fractured  his  scull  and  broke  his  Ribs12 — My  dear 
Husband  slipd  off  the  Arch  of  the  New  Furnace  at  Horse 
Hays,  hurt  his  knee  badly,  but  a  great  mercy  his  Leg  was 
not  broke — I  had  a  fall  from  my  Horse  but  did  not 
receive  much  Hurt. 

i2mo    I  was  deliverd  of  my  3rd  son  Wm. 

10  The  visit  to  Worcester  of  these  two  worthy  women  is  recorded, 
ia  An  Account  of  those  pitbHck  Friends  who  visited  Worcester  Meeting, 
17 S3  and  1754,  MS.  in  D.    They  were  in  the  City  from  ■/  mo.  26  to  30. 

For  Grace  Chambers  (1676-1762),  see  The  Journal,  vol.  vii.,  etc. 
For  Lydia  Lancaster  (1684-1761),  see  Camb.  Jnl. 

"  A  contemporary  account  reads  :  "  29th  Darby  Ford  was 
found  drowned  in  the  New  Pool  &  was  buried  2vA  3™  1756  at  Broseley." 
(.MS.  |n  D,,  at  end  of  Account  of  those  publick  Friends  who  visited  Coallrook- 
dale  &•  Broseley  Meetings,  1755,  1756.) 

"  A  contemporary  account  (see  last  note)  records.  "  Edmund 
Dai  by,  from  a  Fall  from  of  his  Horje,  on  the  24th  died  the  Is-  6'"  •  at 
Albrighton  &  was  buried  at  Broseley  the  3id." 


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*757 

5mo.  20th.  Our  Daughter  Hannah  was  married 
to  Richard  Reynolds  Junior  of  Bristol1*  and  to  live  at  the 
Bank.  N 

7010.  nth.  ~My  Dear  Child  William  Departed  this 
Life  and  was  Buried  at  Broseley.  It  is  our  Duty  and 
Divine  Providence  hath  placed  in  us  a  Strong  attachment 
and  affection  for  our  Children,  therefore  it  is  our  Duty  to 
do  what  we  can  for  them  and  long  for  their  Lives  But 
when  we  reflect  that  they  are  taken  awa\'  from  the  Evil 
to  come,  and  are  sure  they  are  Glorified  Angels  dwelling 
in  the  Presence  of  Joy  unspeakable,  not  for  a  few  moments 
but  for  ever  and  ever,  Oh  how  can  we  repine  at  their 
happiness  Extatick  Joy.  It  was  hard  to  me  to  submit., 
but  now  I  am  glad  he  was  counted  worthy. 

havfc  such  *  1758  - 

4mo.  1st.  My  Dear  Children  Molly  Abby  Sally  and 
Sammy  were  now  under  preparation  for  the  Small  Pox 
to  be  inoculated  I  was  in  great  distress  about  it,  but  my 
Husband  was  desirous  to  have  it  done . .  as  this  distemper 
had  been  very  fatal  in  his  and  my  Family.  .1  was  passive 
but  could  not  freely  give  my  consent,  .they  were  all  four 
inoculated  on  the  14th  of  the  4  mo.. My  Husband 
in  his  Memorandum  says  between  four  and  five  in  the 
afternoon  the  Irruption  came  out  8  days  after  and  8  da}-s 
after  that  they  were  at  the  height  and  through  the  Blessing 
of  Kind  Providence  got  well  through. 

6mo.  9th.  2nd  hour  in  the  afternoon  I  was  deliverd 
of  my  daughter  Jane  Maude  Darby. 

10th  mo.  My  Dear  Child  Jane  was  ill  and  departed 
this  life  the  2nd  of  iomo  and  was  buried  at  Broseley  the 
14th. 

1759 

5mo..To  the  Welsh  Yearly  Meeting  held  at  Neath 
in  Glormorganshire. 

13  Abiah  Darby's  step-daughter,  Hannah,  married  Richard  Reynolds 
"  the  Philanthropist,"  at  Shrewsbury.  Portions  of  her  Diary,  1761, 
i;m2,  and  of  her  letters,  1753,  etc., 'are  panted  in  Reynolds-RcdhbonQ 
Diaries  and  Leilas,  London,  1905. 

'*  That  is,  the  D  ink  House,  Ketley,  near  Shifna!.  There  is  a  view  of 
this  house  ia  Reynolds- Rathbone  Via*  ins. 


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6mo..At  Yearly  Meeting  at  London.. by  request 
wrote  Epistle  to  the  women  Friends  in  Pensilvania. 

91110 . . vSet  out . .  to  Litchfield . .  Derby . .  Chesterfield . . 
Sheffield . .  evening  t  o  Ferry  bridge  which  was  28  to  lodge . . 
Sandy  Hut  ton  ..  worthy  friend  Bosweil  Middleton15 . .  he 
was  above  90  years  old.  .was  very  fresh — had  lately  rode 
to  York..  18  miles  without  lighting,  and  read  my  Cer- 
tificate (I  believe)  without  spectacles  ..  Newcastle ..  while 
I  was  here  I  waited  upon  General  Win  Whit  more,  Member 
for  Bridgnorth  who  knew  my  Husband... He  received 
roe  very  respectfully  and  I  informed  him  of  my  intention 
of  going  to  Berwick  and  as  I  was  informed  he  was 
Governor  of  the  Garrison  and  Fort  there,  I  requested  he 
would  please  to  favour  me  with  a  letter  to  the  Com- 
manding Officer  there,  that  if  I  found  I  could  not  be  easj? 
without  having  an  Opportunity  with  the  Soldiers,  I  might 
have  such  a  liberty.  He  was  pleased  to  promise  me  a 
letter .  .Alnwick .  .requested  the  Town  Hall  which  was 
readily  granted  and  many  people  were  at  the  Meeting . . 
as  we  went  to  the  Inn  a  well  dressed  man  came  to  us 
and  requested  we  would  give  them  another  Discourse 
that  afternoon.  .So  agreed  to  it.,  and  the  Carpenter 
who  had  put  up  a  Gallery  and  had  taken  it  down,  very 
readily  put  it  up  again  and  would  have  nothing,  nor 
hardly  let  his  men  take  anything . .  many  people 
attended  it.. even  from  Inns,  for  a  Stage  Coachman 
came  to  the  door  and  called  out  for  anyone  belonging 
to  the  Angel  Inn,  servants,  Chambermaids  &e  for 
he  could  find  none  at  home.  Berwick .  .went  to  the 
Mayor  to  request  the  Town  Hall.. who  readily  granted 
it,  and  was  sorry  he  was  obliged  to  be  out  of  town, 
also  the  Sheriff  said  the  same.. also  Major  Beau- 
clerk  the  Commanding  Officer  was  very  civil  and  said 
that  the  assistance  he  could  give  should  be  at  my  service. 
I  found  I  could  not  be  easy  without  having  an  oppor- 
tunity with  the  Soldiers  and  sent  to  the  Major  who  ordered 
them  to  be  collected  in  the  large  Square  of  the  Barracks . . 
and  drawn  up  by  the  officers,  .when  we  were  placed  they 

• 15  Bosweil  Miijdleion  (c.  1667-1763)  of  Borouqhbridqe.  was  the  son 
of  Bosweil  ("Bossall)  and  Margaret  Middfetaa,  of  Kft^esboroifght  A 
newspaper  paragraph  in  D.,  relating  his  death,  states  that  he  had 
Wen  "  Master  of  some  Oil  mills  near  that  place  ;  Le  retained  hi.;  senses  and 
memory  to  the  last." 


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made  a  half  circle  round  us.  .1  was  engaged  to  speak  and 
style  them  Dear  Fellow  Soldiers..!  was  engaged  to 
pray  for  the  King  in  an  earnest  manner.  .Morpeth,  .leave 
for  the  Town  Hall  must  be  had  of  the  Priest ..  Oliver 
Naylor . . who  was  also  a  Justice.. he  refused  answering 
with  a  sneer  that  he  sometimes  let  it  out  to  Rope  Dancers 
Players,  &c. 

iomo.  22nd.    Home.    Dear  Husband  and  children 

pretty  well. 

1760 

4mo.  1st,  Sent  our  Chaise  to  meet  Grace  Chambers 
and  Cousin  Praia  Lancaster. 

26th.  My  Husband  &  self  with  our  Children  went 
in  our  Boat  for  Worcester. 

5mo.  20  th.  Sent  many  Books  relating  to  Wars  and 
Fighting  to  Monmouth  to  be  dispersed.. a  young  man 
being  put  into  Prison  because  he  could  not  serve  in  the 
Malitia. 

6mo.  23rd.    The  Priest  of  Highly  lodgd  here. 

ymo.  17th.  To  Wellington  and  had  a  Meeting  in 
the  Market  House,  .the  Priest  set  the  Bells  in  the  Steple 
House  a  ringing  but  some  of  his  own  professors  stopd 
them. 

10 mo.  2nd.  Set  out  on  our  journey .  .Hereford . . 
to  the  Mayors  house.  .1  was  free  to  ask  him  for  the  Town 
Hall  to  have  a  Meeting  in  but  he  was  affraid..I  shewd 
him  my  Certificate  that  I  was  no  Impostor  he  behaved 
veiy  civilly. 

Next  clay  I  went  to  the  Bishop.  When  he  came  into 
the  Room  he  asked  our  Business,  if  it  was  about  Tithe. 
I  told  him  No.  I  was  engaged  to  come  to  speak  to  him 
from  the  Holy  Spirit,  .he  said  We  dont  hear  such  things 
. .  I  said  something  of  what  was  on  my  mind  but  he  would 
not  stay  to  hear  me  out.. I  writ  to  him  from  the  Inn. 
[She  preached  by  the  Market  Cross.] 

nmo.  10.  Worcester .. Cousin  Thos.  Beesley16  and 
Timothy  Bevington17  went  to  the  Mayor  to  request  an 
opportunity  with  him .  .he  freely  granted  it  and  said  what- 

,0  Thomas  Beesley  (1683-1770),  of  AlcesteV,  Warwickshire,  son  of 
Thomas  and  Martha  Beesley  of  the  same. 

17  Timothy  Bcvington  (c.  1727-1802),  of  Worcester,  married  Hannah, 
daughter  of  Joseph  1  "recti:,  01  Coventry,  iu  1750.    Both  were  Ministers. 


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ever  advice  should  be  given  him  he  would  endeavour 
to  put  in  to  practise.. I  had  a  free  time  to  speak,  and 
what  I  said,  he  received  veiy  kindly,  .he  was  very  loving 
&  said  if  he  ever  came  within  five  miles  of  our  house,  he 
would  come  to  see  us. 

tith.    Set  out  for  home. 

20th.  I  was  taken  very  poorly  and  miscarryd  soon 
after,  .got  well  through  as  heretofore  in  like  cases. 

1761 

irao.  I  see  in  my  notes  that  the  Moon  is  two 
hundred  and  forty  thousand  Miles  of  the  Earth.. and  is 
fifty-one  times  less  than  the  Earth.. and  the  Sun  is  a 
Million  times  bigger  [and  more  to  similar  import]. 

-  imo.  20th.  John  Fletcher,18  Parson  of  Madeley 
here  with  several  others,  he  asked  us  several  questions 
relating  our  [Principles . . my  mind  eneaeed  in  awful 
prayer  at  Table,  a  great  cross  to  give  up  to  it,  but  found 
peace  in  so  doing.. we  lent  him  several  books. 

2mo.  19th.  My  Husband  at  Mo.  meeting  at  Salop. . 
several  Gentlemen  dined  with  me.  I  was  powerfully 
engaged  in  awful  prayer,  having  Reverently  to  bless  the 
Great  Name  amongst  them. 

21st.  John  Fletcher  here  &  returned  the  Books 
we  had  lent  him  and  confessed  to  the  truth  of  our  prin- 
ciples &  that  our  friends  were  greatly  inspired  by  the 
Holy  Spirit. 

3mo.  4th.  Put  up  papers  in  the  Dale  to  warn  the 
disorderly  of  both  Sexes. 

29th.  My  mind  drawn  to  the  People  in  Wales  in 
Love  to  their  Souls.. named  it  to  my  Dear  Husband.. 
Dear  Nephew  Wm  Maude  a  Religious  young  man  indeed 
offers  to  go  with  me  to  our  Welsh  Yearly  Meeting  at 
Langhcrne. 

4mo.  1st.  I  set  out.. very  bad  road  and  much  in 
the   night   but   favord   with    starlight .  .the  Heavens 

*8  John  William  Fletcher,  or  De  La  Flechcre  (1729-1785).  He  was 
born  in  Switzerland  and  came  to  England,  c.  1752.  He  wrs  vicar  of 
Madeley  from  1760  till  his  death.  :'  From  the  beginning  of  his  settling  there, 
he  was  a  laborious  workman  in  his  Lord':,  vineyard  ;  endeavouring  to 
spread  the  truth  of  the  Gospel  and  to  suppress  vice  in  every  pot  lible 
form." — Life,  hy  Benson.     See  p.  92  of  this  issue. 


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appearing  on  a  Glow  with  the  Rays  from  the  Glorious 
Bodys  placed  in  the  mighty  extent  of  infinite  space. 

7th.  Womens  meeting  held  in  a  room  in  the  old 
Castle. 

8th.  Two  Publick  Meetings  held  in  a  Booth  against 
the  Castle  wall,  the  people  solid  and  the  meeting 
satisfactory. 

9th.  1  had  all  the  business  in  the  Women's  Meeting 
to  transact  myself  as  I  generally  have,  writ  the  Epistle 
to  the  Women's  Meeting  in  London  and  the  Epistle  to 
Wales,  -.not  having  the  least  accident  in  the  course  of 
360  miles. 

1762 

5mo.  14th.  James  Daniels19  from  Salem  in  West 
Jersey  in  America  came  to  visit  us. 

18th.  Daughter  Hannah  Reynolds  took  ill  of  the 
Measles. 

24th.  The  Lord  saw  meet  to  take  her  out  of  this 
troublesome  world  about  4  o'clock  to  our  great  sorrow.  . 
the  Children20  came  down  to  our  house. 

Sent  a  paper  to  be  inserted  in  the  Royal  Magazine, 
relating  the  Salutary  effects  of  artificial  Baths .  .having 
had  the  experience  of  it.  It  was  inserted  in  the  Month 
called  April  page  180. 

8mo.  19.     Wrote  a  few  lines  to  the  Priest  of  Madeley 
as  follows,  with  Richard  Clarridges  Book  : 
"  Esteemed  Friend 

"  As  thou  hast  always  treated  me  with  candour  I 
have  presumed  to  use  freedom  with  thee.. as  I  now  do 
in  sending  thee  this  book,  which  I  shall  be  obliged 
to  thee  to  read.. the  author  was  a  Priest  of  the 
Church  of  England  several  3*ears,  but  at  last  was  obliged 
to  give  up  all . .  I  make  free  to  say  that  I  believe  thou  hast 
been  of  service  in  the  Lords  Hand  to  reform  the  people 
hereaway . . " 

*  James  Daniel  (1704-1776),  of  Salem,  X.J.  "  He  travelled  in  the 
work  of.  the  ministry,  in  several  of  the  American  provinces,  and  once  in 
England,  of  which  services  v/c  had  comfortable  accounts." — Phila. 
Memorials^  1824. 

2"  These  children  were  (1)  William,  b.  175S,  m.  Hannah  Ball  1787, 
and  had  children,  and  (2)  Hannah  Mary  (1761-1839),  married  William 
Rathbo.'io,  of  Liverpool,  17 80  (see  portrait  in  Reynolds- Rathhont  Diaries), 


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30th.  The  Priest  of  Madeley  was  here  and  after  he 
was  gone  I  felt  a  strong  engagement  to  go  to  his  meeting 
held  at  George  Crannages31  where  he  and  several  of  his 
followers  met.  I  gave  up  to  go  tho'  an  exceeding  great 
cross  to  me.  I  had  full  time  to  declare  against  dead 
formality  in  Religion .  .he  made  some  little  objection  but 
behaved  civil,  .we  parted  very  friendly. 

qmo.  7th.  Set  out  on  our  Journey  [with  certificate . . 
Worcestershire,  Gloucestershire,  Bristol,  Wiltshire.  At 
Corsham]  dined  at  Thomas  Bennits22  a  worthy  Friend  & 
Minister  who  kept  a  Boarding  School.  I  think  he  said  he 
came  from  Barbadoes  <S:  had  the  grounds  of  his  Convince- 
ment  at  Sankey  school, 

[Copy  of  a  letter  from  Thos.  Bennett,  dated  Pickwick 
10 mo.  9th,  1762.] 

"  I  have  had  the  pleasure  of  thy  Mother  Darbys 
Company  at  my  house.. she  posts  on  so  fast  having 
frequently  two  Meetings  a  day,  as  for  instance  from 
Melksham  she  and-  her  companion  Agnes  Horton2*  went 
to  Bromham  took  that  Meeting  at  11  o'clock  and  from 
thence  the  same  day  had  a  meeting  in-  the  evening  at 
Devizes . .  from  thence  they  came  to  Corsham  had  a  Meeting 
there  the  7th  inst.  and  went  thence  to  an  evening  meeting 
at  Chippenham,  .thence  they  attended  the  meeting 
at  Cain  the  8th./' 

[Berkshire,  London,  Norfolk,  Suffolk,  Essex]  Col- 
chester. .Meeting  House  &  Galleries  were  not  sufficient 
to  contain  them.. the  Malitia  for  the  County  was 
all  in  Town  and  the  Officers  were  all  there,  but 
one  upon  duty  and  a  many  Soldiers  [London,  Oxford] 
Home  and  found  all  well.. this  Journey  of  above  a 
thousand  Miles. 

11  Members  of  the  Cranage  family  lived  at  Broseley  and  Coalbrook- 
dale.    The  will  of  George  Cranage  was  proved  in  1807  (abstract  in  D.). 

72  The  Bennett  family  of  Pickwick,  near  Corsham,  Wiltshire,  was 
prominent  in  the  annals  of  eighteenth  century  Wiltshire  Quakerism. 
Thomas  Bennett  (or,  more  correctly,  Thomas  Beadley  Bennett)  had 
Abiah  Darby's  future  son-in-law,  Richard  Reynolds,  as  a  pupil  about  1745. 
Thomas  Bennett  died  in  1764,  and  his  widow,  Mary,  in  1778. 


17 


aesumably,  the  wife  of  Robert 
ale,  Salop,  whom  she  married 
>.)•    She  was  the  daughter  of 


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3mo.   31st.    Mf  Dear  Husband  departed  this  life. 

4mo.  3rd.  My  Dear  Husbands  remains  were 
inter'd  in  a  piece  of  Ground  which  he  in  his  illness 
pointed  out  and  directed  us  how  we  should  convey  his 
Corps  to  it  with  the  greatest  calmness  and  composure. 

7m o.  14th.  A  strong  engagement  came  upon  me 
to  go  to  the  Meeting  of  Parson  Fletcher  and  his  followers 
..I  had  the  Word  to  declare  with  power,. the  Parson 
"heard  me  patiently  and  commended  what  I  had  said  and 
desired  all  to  take  notice  of  the  advise.. but  objected  to 
the  points  of  Doctrine  I  had  advanced ..  which,  had 
touched  his  Copyhold  or  Priest  Craft . .  I  had  close  work 
of  it  for  above  3  hours . .  Ann  was  engaged  in  prayer . .  the 
Parson  kneeld  down  &  upon  the  whole  he  behaved  with 
respect. 

81110.  4.  Hugh  Forbes  &  Thomas  Fisher  came  from 
Pensilvania  Thomas's  Grandmother  Name  was  Margery 
Maude  a  Yorkshire  woman . .  Believe  of  our  Family. 

omo.  3rd. .  .for  Stratford,  Seven  County  Meeting. 

8th,  Home. 

25th.  At  Meeting.. it  hath  been  held  in  the  Malt 
House  sometime  as  we  are  enlarging  our  Meeting  House 
which  My  Dear  Husband  left  to  Friends.. he  also  left 
a  Graveyard  which  I  have  had  walld  round. 

1764 

nmo.  22nd.  ..A  great  weight  came  upon  me  to  go 
to  the  Meeting  of  the  Priest  of  this  Parish  and  his  followers 
..where  I  had  been  before  at  considerable  distances  of 
time..l  then  stood  up  and  desired  leave  to  speak.. an 
argument  ensued .  .which  lasted  some  hours. 

1765 

i mo.  4th.  John  Fletcher  sent  me  word  he  would 
read  my  Manuscript  at  his  meeting  if  I  chose  to  go.  I 
sent  him  in  answer  that  I  hoped  he  would  read  it  impar- 
tially but  had  no  desire  to  attend.  Daniel  Rose  found  his 
mind  drawn  to  go  (though  unknown  to  me).  The 
Parson  read  here  a  line  and  there  one,  and  made  strange 
work  of  it  and  Daniel  had  to  stand  up  and  contend  for  the 
Truth,  .the  Priests  who  were  together  at  my  house 


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asserted  things  that  I  had  said  when  they  were  here  that 
I  never  had  said  &  Daniel  being  in  the  next  room  &  hear- 
ing all  that  passed  was  able  to  contradict  them.. they 
returned  sharply .  .how  could  he  tell  not  being  present 
but  he  told  them  he  was  in  the  next  room  &  heard  ail 
which  surprised  them  much. 

20th.  I  sent  to  Shrewsbtiry  another  copy  of  my 
Address2*  to  what  is  called  the  Dancing  Assembly  and  it 
was  presented  as  the  foregoing.. a  Gentleman  took  it 
&  put  it  in  his  pocket  &  w7hen  the}7  went  to  tea  he  read  it 
to  the  Company . .  who  were  very  serious  and  some  affected 
by  it,  especially  him  who  read  it.. who  had  been  much 
addicted  to  these  diversions,  being  a  chief  man  among 
them  his  name  Scot,  a  Captain  in  the  Arm}''  &  from  that 
time  he  left  off  such  Diversions,  .and  became  a  Preacher 
amofig  the  Methodists. 

21110.  25th.  Having  been  summoned  to  appear 
before  the  Justices  at  the  Court  at  Much  Wenlock,  I  wrote 
as  follows  : 

"  Respected  Friends 

"  I  have  received  your  summons  to  appear  before 
you  on  complaint  made  against  me  by  John  Hayward 
Priest  of  Little  Wenlock  on  account  of  Tythes,  which  he 
demands  of  me  for  land  held  in  that  Parish,  also  I  re- 
ceivd  an  obliging  message  that  I  need  not  trouble  myself 
to  come,  .therefore  I  send  these  few  lines  to  inform  you 
that  I  cannot  in  conscience  pay  to  an  Hireling  Ministry. . 
I  cannot  think  hardly  of  you  in  acting  as  the  law  directs 
only  I  hope  you  will  be  so  obliging  as  to  restrain  the 
Priests  and  officers  from  imposition  in  the  exaction  of  it. 

"  Sunniside,  25th  2rno.  1765. 

"  Abiah  Darby." 

4mo.  26th.  Set  out  for  the  Welsh  Yearly  Meeting 
at  Hay. 


Abiah  Darby  wrote  An  Expo-tnlatory  Address  to  ail  who  frequent 
Places  of  Diversion  and  Gaming,  no  date;  and  An  Exhortation  in  Christian 
Love,  to  all  who  frequent  Horse-Racing,  CocU-pi'htin*,  Throwing  at  Cocks, 
Gaming,  Plays,  Dav.civ.%,  Musical  Entertainments,  or  any  other  vain 
diversions,  printed  at  Shrewsbury  in  1760. 

She  also  wrote  Useful  i  nstmct  >'<>;>  !<■>■  Children,  by  way  of  Question 
and  Answer,  first  published  in  1763,  and  reprinted  six  times  fall  edd.  in  D.) 


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5  mo.  17th.  Lady  Leighton  with  her  son  and 
daughter  dined  here.  1  omitted  doing  my  duty.. but 
the  Lord  is  merciful  to  pardon  &  pass  by. 

6mo.  1st.  Having  heard  of  Lady  Huntington2*  being 
come  to  pay  a  visit  to  my  neighbours  the  Parsons,26 1  sent 
to  offer  her  the  use  of  my  Carriage  as  she  had  not 
brought  fief  ov/n  j&  she  desiring  to  see  me  I  took  my  Fd. 
A.  Summerland  with  me,  &  she  received  us  with  much 
kindness. 

1768. 

4mo.  25th.  To  Wellington  at  which  place  the  Welch 
Yearty  Meeting  is  now  held,  .the  seats  of  the  gaJler}r  gave 
way,  but  no  material  hurt  was  sustained,  .it  was  supposed 
4000  attended . .  who  behaved  well. 


Church  arrangements,  important  in  themselves,  must  be  regarded 
as  simply  machinery  through  which*  forces  can  work,  and  the  more 
efficiently  the  machinery  allows  the  forces  to  work,  the  richer  will  be  the 
service  of  the  Church. 

William  C.  BraIthwaite,  in  The  Message  and  Mission  of 
Quakerism,  Phila.  ed.,  1911,  p.  41. 

15  Selina,  Countess  of  Huntingdon  (1707-1791),  founder  of  "Lady 
Huntingdon's  Connexion."  She  was  intimate  with  John  and  Charles 
Wesley.  John  Fletcher  was  Superintendent  of  her  college  at  Trevecca, 
1768-1771. 

36  That  is,  John  Fletcher.  This  visit  is  also  mentioned  in  Benson's 
Life  of  Fletcher,  nth  ed..  1838,  p.  109. 

The  following  references  to  Friends  arc  to  be  found  in  Benson's  Life  : — 

1782.  His  thoughts  were  much  engaged  concerning  the  utility 
of  Sunday-Schools  [Robert  Raikes  opened  his  first  Sunday  School  in 
Gloucester  in  1780"1,  especially  after  they  were  recommended  to  him  by 
Mrs.  Darby,  an  intelligent  pud  pious  person,  whom  he  always  found  ready 
to  promote  every  good  work,  p.  297. 

"  God  forbid  that  I  should  exclude  from  my  brotherly  affections,  and 
occasional  assistance,  any  true  Minister  of  Christ,  because  he  casts  the 
Gospel  net  among  the  Presbyterians,  the  Independents,  the  Quakers, 
or  the  Baptists  !  .  .  .  They  may  build  up  a  wall  of  partition  between 
themselves  and  me  ;  but,  'in  the  strength  of  my  God,  I  will  leap  over 
the  wall.'  "  p.  330. 

The  income  of  his  living  was  not.  on  an  average,  more  than  cue 
hundred  pounds  per  annum.  For  many  of  the  people  called  Quakers, 
living  in  his  parish,  believed  it  unlawful  to  pay  tithes  ;  and  Mr.  Fletcher 
did  not  choose  to  take  from  them  by  force,  what  they  did  not  think  it 
lawful  to  give  him.  p.  34411. 

When ill  iu  London  in  1776,  Fletcher  was  under  the  care  of  Dr.  John 
Fothergill,  p.  19s. 


WN  the  Introduction  to  a  Catalogue  of  Tracts  of  the 
I    Civil  War  and  CommonzveaUh  Period  relating  to 
Wales  and  the  Borders  (National  Library  of  Wales, 
Aberystwyth,  191 1)  occur  the  words  : 
"  Incident  a  il3r  it  may  be  mentioned  that  among  the 
very  few  women  contributors  to  the  controversies  of  the 
Civil  War  period,  not  one  had  any  connection  with 
Wales/' 

"This  statement  suggested  a  search  through  Joseph 
Smith's  Catalogue  of  Friends  Books  in  quest  of  Women 
Friends  who  might  have  written  during  that  period. 
The  result  agrees  with  the  above  statement  so  far  as 
women  controversialists  connected  with  Wales  are 
concerned,  and  for  the  period  of  the  Interregnum— a 
somewhat  early  one  for  Quaker  writers — there  are  only 
about  eighteen  women  whose  writings  can  be  classed 
as  controversial. 

In  1652,  certain  prisoners  in  York  Castle  issued  a 
printed  paper  entitled  False  Prophets  and  false  Teachers 
described,  the  women  signatories  being  Elizabeth  liooton, 
Jane  Holmes,  and  Mary  Fisher  ;  in  1655,  Priscilla  Cotton 
and  Mary  Cole  caused  to  be  printed  an  address  To  the 
Priests  and  People  of  England,  and  in  the  same  year, 
Anne  Audland  and  Martha  Simmonds  wrote  contro- 
versial pamphlets  ;  but  Margaret  Fell  was  the  principal 
Quaker  woman  writer  of  that,  and  perhaps  of  any,  period. 
Her  first  piece  is  dated  1655,  and  twenty-four  other 
-  separate  works  of  various  lengtlis  are  credited  to  her  by 
Smith,  down  to  1677.  In  1656,  Anne  Gargill  wrote 
A.  Brief  Discovery  of  the  Popish  Religion,  and  A  Warning 
to  all  the  World ;  the  following  year  Mary  Bowgill 
wrote  an  address  to  the  Protector,  and  also  to  the 
town  of  Dover,  and  in  1657  also,  Jane  Bettris  wrote 
A  Lamentation  for  the  Deceived  People  of  the  World.  In 
1658,  Rebecca  Travers  and  Sarah   Biackborow  appear, 

Vol.  x. — 114,  ^3 


94      WOMEN  WRITERS  AMONG  FRIENDS 


and  in  1659,  Dorothy  White,  Grace  Barwick,  Ann 
Gould,  Mary  Webb,  and  Margaret  Bradley. 

Taking  into  review  the  whole  of  the  Quaker  period 
falling  within  the  seventeenth  century,  that  is,  the  last 
fifty  years  thereof,  it  is  abundantly  evident  that  women 
writers  were  not  lacking  among  Friends,  no  less  than 
eighty-four  being  mentioned  by  Joseph  Smith.  Testi- 
monies to  deceased  Friends,  Warnings,  Lamentations  and 
Prophecies,  Invitations  and  Visitations  of  Love  figure 
largely  among  the  tracts  of  women  writers* 

The  general  opinion  that  the  eighteenth  century  was 
a  ihuc  oi  comparatively  little  aggression  is  confirmed  by 
the  fact  that  Joseph  Smith  catalogues  only  sixty-three 
women  writers  for  the  whole  of  that  century  as  against 
eighty-four  for  the  latter  half  of  the  seventeenth  century, 
and  over  250  for  the  nineteenth  century.  It  must  be  borne 
in  mind,  however,  that  as  time  went  on  the  subjects  dealt 
with  increased  greatly  in  variety,  and  were  not  always 
either  religious  or  controversial. 

Next  to  Margaret  Fell  in  the  number  of  literary 
productions  of  the  hrst  half  century  must  probably  be 
placed  Dorothy  White,  who  has  nineteen  entries  under  her 
name  ;  then  would  come  Rebecca  Travers  with  ten,  and 
Joan  Whitrow  with  seven.  The  works  of  Margaret  Fell 
were  collected  and  published  some  years  after  her  death, 
in  1 710,  but  never  reprinted,  nor  indeed  was  any  separate 
tract  of  hers  re-issued,  save  one  which  reappeared  in  a 
magazine  a  century  after  her  works  appeared.  On  the 
other  hand,  Elizabeth  Bat  hurst's  writings,  first  published 
in  1691,  were  reprinted  six  times  down  to  1788,  and 
Elizabeth  Stirredge's  life  was  printed  five  times  171 1  to 
184ft 

The  most  popular  of  the  writings  on  Quaker  subjects 
by  women  Friends,  to  judge  by  the  number  of  editions, 
-would  appear  to  be  Mary  Brook's  Reasons  for  the  Necessity 
oj  Silent  Waiting,  of  which  at  least  twenty-three  editions 
were  printed  between  1774  and  1870,  in  England, 
Ireland,  Germany,  and  America,  and  which  was  trans- 
lated into  French  and  German.  Sophia  Hume's  Exhorta- 
tion to  the  Inhabitants  of  South  Carolina,  originally  printed 
by  Benjamin  Franklin  in   Philadelphia   in   1748,  was 


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reprinted  in  Bristol,  London,  Leeds,  and  Dublin,  in  all 
six  times  within  six  years,  and  her  later  Caution  lo  such 
as  observe  Days,  was  printed  seven  times  down  to  1766. 
Mary  Mollineux's  poems  ran  to  six  editions  between  1702 
and  1772,  and  of  Priscilla  Qnrney's  selection  01  hymns 
there  were  ten  editions,  the  last  bearing  date  1848, 
thirty  years  after  the  first.  Mar)'  Elizabeth  Beck's 
pamphlet  on  What  Docs  the  Society  of  Friends  Believe  ? 
has  been  many  times  reprinted  by  the  London.  Friends' 
Tract  Association,  since  first  issued.  The  same  Associa- 
tion has  issued,  in  nine  years,  40.500  copies  of  Georgina  K. 
Lewis's  short  sketches,  Elizabeth  Fry,  and  George  Fox. 

Of  autobiographical  records  which  have  re-appeared 
periodically  to  the  present  may  be  noted  Mary 
Penington's  Account  of  Exercises  from  Childhood,  written 
in  1680,  printed  in  Philadelphia  in  1797,  1848  and  1911, 
in  London  in  1799  and  1821,  and  in  Rhode  Island  in 
1874  ;  Alice  Hayes's  Relation  of  her  Life,  1723,  reprinted 
five  times  to  1838  ;  Elizabeth  Ashbridge's  Life,  of  which 
the  first  edition  appeared  in  1774,  and  six  more  later, 
published  in  Liverpool,  Philadelphia,  Dublin,  Brighton 
and  London,  down  to  1904. 

Note. 

The  women  authors  in  Smith's  Catalogue  of  books 
adverse  to  Friends  are  five,  viz., in  order  of  date  of  writing, 
Jane  Turner,  of  Newcastle-on-Tyne,  Choice  Experiences, 
1653  '>  Eleanor  James,  of  London,  A  Word  or  Two 
Concerning  a  Quaker 's  Good  A  dvice,  1687;  Grace  Lamson 
and  Mary  Parke  signed,  with  several  men,  A  Certificate 
to  obviate  the  false  Reports  given  out  by  the  Quakers, 
in  West  Dearharn,  Norfolk,  c.  1700  ;  and  Antonia 
Bourignon  wrote  A  Warning  against  the  Quakers,  1700. 


Men  substitute  tradition  for  the  living  experience  of  the  love  of 
God.  They  talk  and  think  as  though  walking  with  God  was  attained 
by  walking  in  the  footsteps  of  men  who  walked  witli  God. 

William  C.  Braithwaite,  in  The  Message  and  Mission  of 
Quakerism,  Phila.  ed.,  p.  2  3. 


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JW-N  a  recently  published  volume,  Historical  Portraits, 
I  1600-1700,  there  are  reproductions  of  eighteen 
paintings  by  Sir  Peter  Lely,  including  the  one 
said  to  represent  George  Fox.  These  include 
George  Monck,  Duke  of  Albemarle  ;  Prince  Rupert  ; 
Henry  Martin,  whose  "  profligacy  culminated  in  bank- 
ruptcy "  ;  Pat  id  Leslie,  Lord  Newark,  "  completely 
devoted  to  war  James  Ussher,  Archbishop  of  Armagh; 
Anne  Hyde,  Duchess  of  York  ;  James  Butler,  Duke  of 
Ormonde  ;  George  ViJliers,  Duke  of  Buckingham ; 
Algernon  Sidney  ;  Samuel  Pepys  ;  James  JL,  when  Duke 
of  York  ;  the  Duke  of  Monmouth  ;  and  Sir  Peter  himself. 
Verily,  George,  thou  art  in  strange  company  ! 

Sir  Peter  Lely  (1618-1680)  was  the  son  of  a  Dutch 
soldier  called  Van  der  Faes.  He  came  to  England  in 
1641.  His  assumed  name  seems  to  have  been  taken  from 
the  sign  of  a  "  lily  "  over  his  father's  home  in  Holland. 
"  After  1660  Lely  was  continually  busy  in  painting  the 
beauties  of  the  Court — so  busy  indeed  that  many  found 
it  exceedingly  difficult  to  get  a  sitting.  He  was  knighted 
in  1679,  and  was  full}7  at  work  when  he  died  suddenly 
in  the  next  year     (op.  cit.). 

The  painting  from  which  the  familiar  portrait  of 
George  Fox  was  reproduced  hangs  in  the  rooms  of  the 
Friends'  Historical  Library,  at  Swarthmore  College, 
Pennsylvania.  According  to  a  note  to  the  portrait  in 
Quaker  Biographies,  vol.  i.,  published  in  Philadelphia, 
1909,  "  An  American,  John  Wethered,  when  on  a  visit  to 
London  in  1858,  found  in  a  curiosit}"  shop  near  Trafalgar 
Square  an  ancient  painting,  on  the  reverse  side  of  which 
was  written  '  Geo.  Fox.'  The  picture  was  shown  to  many 
experts  in  England,  and,  as  a  result  of  careful  examination 
by  them,  it  was  thought  that  the  painting  was  the  work  of 
Sir  Peter  Lely." 

So  far  as  we  know  Fox  never  sat  for  his  portrait,, 
and  it  is  not  in  the  least  likely  that  he  ever  did  so,  but 
some  admirer,  such  as  Judge  Fell,  might  have  com- 
missioned Lely  to  paint  him,  and  the  painter  might 


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have  secured  a  reasonably  accurate  representation  of 
his  features. 

The  result  of  a  comparison  by  some  expert  of  the 
various  reproductions  given  in  the  above-mentioned 
volume,  of  the  work  of  Sir  Peter,  might  result  in  estab- 
lishing or  disproving  of  the  statement  that  the  Fox 
portrait  was  actually  the  work  of  this  painter.  It  would 
be  interesting  to  have  an  authoritative  pronoun  corn  ent  as 
to  the  possibility  of  the  Fox  of  Honthorst,  painted  in 
1654,  being  the  same  man  as  the  Fox  of  Lei}7,  not  3nore 
than  twenty-five  years  later. 

The  questions  to  which  answers  are  sought  are  : — 

i.  Was  the  portrait  painted  by  Sir  Peter  Lely  ? 

ii.  Does  it  represent  George  Fox  ? 


Oueen  €ai?)Cthxe  at  ©et>one§tre  $$QWt,  1662 


In  an  article  on  the  headquarters  of  London  Y.M. 
which  appeared  in  Friends'  Quarterly  Examiner,  1911,  it- 
is  stated  that  tf  the  Countess  Dowager  of  Devonshire 
(d.  1675)  entertained  here  King  Charles  II.  and  Iris 
Queen.' *  By  the  kindness  of  Albert  Cook  Myers  we  are 
able  to  give  a  contemporaiy  reference  to  the  Queen's  visit, 
taken  from  the  Rugge  MSS.  in  the  British  Museum  : — ■ 

Sept.  1662.  "  The  last  day  of  September  the 
yong  Queen  and  Duke  of  York  and  two  dutches  went 
into  the  Citty  of  london  with  a  Guard  of  horse,  hir 
majesty  went  only  through  the  Citty  to  see  it  for  that  it 
was  the  first  time  shee  went  into  the  Citty,  she  went  in  a 
very  high  Coatch.  Shee  made  noe  stay  at  all  at  that  time, 
only  at  the  old  Countess  of  devonshire  hir  house  without 
Bishops  Gate  entitled  jTishers  folly." 


When  the  poet  Southcy  was  telling  an  old  Quaker  lady  how  he 
learned  Portuguese  grammar  while  he  washed,  and  something  else  while 
he  dressed,  ond  how  he  did  something  else  while  he  breakfasted,  and  so 
on,  filling  in  the  day  utterly,  she  said  quietly,  '*  But,  friend,  v  hen  does 
thee  think  ?  " 

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Mccovmi  of  an  $Bat$g  ^wixitee 
of  2°^n         Bovdh  1822 

3/26th  1822. — Left  Bristol  on  a  new  route  and 
alth.J  with  a  tolerably  cheerful  face  with  a  veiy  heavy 
heart — Slept  that  night  at  Wotton-under-Edge,  and 
as  usual  far  from  comfortable  there — Ostler  worse  than 
ever  if  poscible. 

27th. — Dursley  &  Glo'ster, — The  latter  town 
new  to  me  as  a  place  of  business  yet  I  found  several  on 
whom  I  called  friendly  and  agreeable. 

28th. — Ross  &  Monmouth. — The  drive  from  Glo'ster 
to  Ross  tedious  and  uninteresting — from  Ross  to  Mon- 
mouth delightful  and  surpasses  any  stage  I  have  ever 
driven—  The  sceneiy  fine  in  the  extreme.  The  Wye 
gently  gliding  its  circuitous  wa}'  amongst  hills  covered 
with  wood  and  enlivened  by  occasional  buildings, 
gentlemen's  seats,  etc.  Nor  must  the  ruins  of  Goodrich 
Castel  be  forgotten,  increasing  as  they  do,  the  interest  of 
the  landscape. — I  almost  envied  the  apparent  happy 
indolence  of  several  I  saw  fishing  on  the  banks  and  of 
others  in  small  boats  paddling  down  this  tranquil  stream 
— "  We  will  not  be  Welch,"  exclaimed  a  lady  at  Monmouth 
with  whom  1  was  conversing  on  the  beauties  of  their 
country — V  You  shall  be  English/'  I  answered  with 
equal  warmth,  "  we  will  not  part  with  vour  county 
to  the  Welch." 

I  omitted  visiting  the  jail  at  Monmouth  not  having 
leisure  for  such  a  visit. 

29!]). — Breakfasted  at  Ragland  and  then  visited  the 
ruins  of  its  castle — Cromwell  did  much  for  the  lovers  of 
the  picturesque].  They  must  thank  him  when  con- 
templating some  of  our  interesting  ruins — From  the  size 
of  the  half,  the  dining-room,  and  the  kitchen,  we  may 
conclude  the  inmates  were  once  numerous,  and  not  wholly 

1  John  Hill  Lovell  (1790-1855),  served  his  apprenticeship  to  John 
and  Olive  Dympnd,  of  Exeter,  linendiapcrs.  He  travelled  for  1  »}•:-.  fertri 
of  Ceor  -e  Crosfleld  &  Co.,  of  Liverpool,  from  18 19  until  his  death.  He 
married  Surah,  widow  of  Edward  B.  Frank,  in  1825,  by  whom  he  bad 
three  sons. 

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inattentive  to  the  pleasures  of  the  table.  Nor  were  they 
deficient  in  courage,  if  we  may  judge  from  its  being  one 
of  the  last  garrisons  that  held  out  for  King  Charles  under 
that  old  veteran  the  Earl  of  Worcester  at  that  time  83 
years  of  age. 

Here  as  at  some  other  ruins  great  quantity  of  ivy 
has  been  destroyed,  "  that  the  architecture  may  appear 
to  more  advantage,"  but  surely  these  Goths  are  mistaken 
in  supposing  that  the  walls  are  more  interesting  stripped 
of  nature's  drapery — From  the  u  Tower  Melin-y-Gwent "  I 
had  an  extensive  view  of  the  surrounding  county  and 
returned  to  my  inn  much  gratified  by  my  excursion  and 
bearing  as  relics  a  piece  of  the  pavement  and  the  fringe 
of  a  curtain — That  the  latter  should  be  in  such  perfection 
or  indeed  preserved  at  all  is  I  think  surprizing — . 

Abergavenny  as  a  town  dull  and  but  from  its  walks 
and  views  of  the  adjoining  hills  not  worth  visiting. 

Pontypool.- — I  must  now  fancy  myself  in  Wales, 
every  thing  about  me  Welch,  from  the  stable  to  the  bed- 
room.— The  very  candles  must  be  Welch  for  they  give  a 
very  small  portion  of  light  and  are  moreover  not  with 
wax  wicks  on  the  discoverer  of  which  I  always  secretly 
and  often  openly  pronounce  no  blessing — In  this  land 
of  poultry  Syntax2  has  been  repeatedly  alarmed  by  the 
Turkey  Cock  in  full  strutt,  the  first  appearance  greatly 
affected  his  nervous  s}7stem  and  from  him  reached  the 
nerves  of  his  master,  but  from  another  cause — Ins 
personal  safety — . 

Thus  far  the  weather  has  been  unusually  fine,  and 
this  has  added  much  to  the  pleasure  of  my  rambles,  but 
I  am  alone,  and  if  I  derive  pleasure  from  the  beauties  of 
nature  I  have  none  to  whom  I  can  impart  it,  not  one  who 
cares  whether  I  am  in  Wales  or  in  Scotland,  whether  I 
am  travelling  in  sunshine  or  shivering  with  the  cold. 

30th.-—  Usk.  The  ruins  of  its  castle  the  only  thing 
worth  notice — I  had  only  time  to  visit  its  exterior.  Not 
particularly  striking. 

Caerleon. — A  miserable  hole. 

Newport. — From  the  Church  yard  1  had  a  fine  view 
of  the  Channel  and  the  Somerset  Coast,  except  its  Coal 
trade,  a  poor  dull  town. 

2  "  Syntax  "    as  evidently  the  name  of  his  horse. 


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From  this  town  to  Cardiff  a  pleasant  drive,  com- 
manding a  view  of  the  water,  etc.  I  enjoyed  it,  wished 
myself  at  home,  and  thought  the  hills  of  Somerset  never 
looked  so  charming.  I  viewed  them  as  old  acquaintances 
whose  appearance  delights  you  amongst  strangers. 

31st. — Altho'  to-day  is  Sunday,  I  have  been  exploring 
the  beauties  of  this  town  (Cardiff).  In  walking  on  the 
banks  of  its  Canal  you  are  struck  with  the  vast  quantity 
of  Iron  ready  to  be  exported  and  the  number  of  vessels 
waiting  to  convey  it  to  its  various  destination. 

About  8,000  tons  weight  of  this  metal  is  supposed 
now  to  be  collected  belonging  to  one  firm.  The  walks 
round  the  Castle  (by  the  liberality  of  the  Marquis  of  Bute 
thrown  open  to  the  public)  are  pleasant  and  afford  a 
delightful  promenade  to  the  belles  of  this  town,  who  sans 
doute  avail  themselves  of  this — as  well  as  all  other 
advantages  for  a  little  bit  of  display. 

Attended  a  Wesley  an  Meeting  this  evening  and  heard 
I  think  gospel  truths  from  their  pulpit — The  sermon  is 
to  me  the  only  thing  that  is  worth  hearing  in  the  various 
places  of  worship  I  attend  (except  my  own)  the  singing 
generally  bad  and  the  prayers  formal.  I  cannot  but  think 
it  is  mocking  the  Majesty  of  Heaven  to  approach  him 
with  such  set  forms  on  the  lips — Words  only  never  can 
avail  us  or  be  accepted  of  him — 'Tis  said  Quakerism  is 
suited  only  to  an  intellectual  people — It  may  be  so  and 
that  in  the  present  state  of  Society  Methodism  may  be 
best  calculated  for  the  lower  orders — The  former  certainly 
is  better  suited  to  educated  minds. 

4th  Mh.  1st.—  -Was  this  day  at  the  City  of  Llaxdaff 
and  viewed  the  remains  of  its  Cathedral  and  thought  of 
its  late  Bishop. — The  City  like  its  Cathedral  is  in  ruins — 
dined  at  Cowbrtdge  and  slept  at  Pylh. 

4/2.-— Tybach,  Neath  &  Swansea. — At  the  first 
place  whilst  waiting  for  a  customer  I  rambled  to  the 
entrance  of  a  coal  mine  (a  pit  I  must  not  call  it)  for  it  was 
merely  a  passage  cut  in  the  hill  of  more  than  a  mile  in 
length  thro'  which  the  coal  is  conveyed  in  small  wagons 
and  from  thence  by  a  rail-road  to  the  Copper  Works. — 

I  had  a  delightful  walk  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Neath, 
the  scenery  is  certainly  fine- -Was  shewn  by  E.W.  some 
peculiarly  constructed  flues,  where  a  successful  expcri- 


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merit  had  been  made  to  deprive  the  smoke  from  the 
copper  furnace  of  its  properties  which  are  so  injurious  to 
vegetation — After  my  walk,  drank  tea  with  E.W.  and 
left  his  house  regretting  that  business  required  my  leaving 
so  early — Of  Swansea  perhaps  I  did  not  see  the  beauties. 
I  certainly  was  disappointed  in  this  town — There  were 
some  good  houses  building  by  the  water-side,  and  there 
the  view  is  certainly  very  pleasing. 

3rd. — In  Carmarthen  I  was  most  sadly  disappointed. 
I  expected  to  have  seen  some  parts  in  some  degree  modern. 
But  age  is  imprinted  on  every  part  except  the  jail — I 
blessed  myseli  that  tins  was  the  extent  of  my  journey 
and  on  that  the  morrow  my  face  wd.  be  turned  towards 
England. 

5th. — Good  Riiday — Llandilo  and  Llanbqvey. 

The  drive  from  Carmarthen  to  the  former  is  said  to 
be  one  of  the  finest  in  Wales  :  I  did  not  much  enjoy 
it.  It  was  before  breakfast  and  the  morning  was  cold — 
Both  towns  miserable  enough — I  often  feel  thankful  I 
was  not  born  and  condemned  to  live  in  these  country 
towns. 

6th. — Trecastle  &  Brecon. — The  country  fine 
but  neither  town  worth  visiting. 

7th. — Sunday. — I  have  enjoyed  two  rambles  round 
this  town  to-day  more  than  I  usually  do.  There  is  a 
delightful  walk  thro'  a  wood,  the  river  running  beneath 
your  feet,  and  from  the  summit  of  the  hill  a  fine  view  of 
the  beacon  and  other  distant  hills. — 

No  place  of  worship  was  visited  to-day  yet  in  one  of 
my  walks  I  was  interested  and  instructed  by  reading 
Young's  "  Night  Thoughts  "  to  my  companion. 

8th. — Talgarth,  Hay,  Hereford. — It  was  too  cold 
to  enjoy  my  ride  to  Talgarth  or  from  the  scenery  it  might 
be  enjoyed — "  Alps  on  Alps  "  in  this  country. — 

Ha}^  a  town  of  little  consequence,  famous  I  under- 
stand for  shoemakers. 

Hereford  appeared  very  dull — there  are  some  good 
buildings  and  the  new  Shire-hall  is  a  spacious  room  and 
very  simply  finished — I  saw  it  filled  more  agreeably  than 
it  usually  is.  An  annual  bible  association  meeting  was 
held  there,  the  greater  part  of  the  company  were  of  the 
lower  orders,  very  decent  and  very  attentive — Some 


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of  the  various  speeches  I  thought  very  much  to  the  purpose 
and  cannot  but  think  they  will  prove  of  use. 

The  Quaker  doctrine  of  the  insufficiency  of  the  bible 
only  to  save  the  soul  wag  ably  and  dearly  preached  by  a 
Calvinistic  Minister — and  the  necessity,  when  reading 
it,  of  craving  the  aid  of  His  spirit  who  inspired  the 
writers  of  the  sacred  volume  was  forcibly  urged  on  the 
audience. 

I  was  much  struck  with  the  countenance  of  a  boy 
during  the  greater  part  of  the  meeting  and  his  close 
attention  to  the  different  speakers,  nor  less  pleased  when 
on  our  leaving,  he  expressed  great  earnestness  to  give 
"  sixpence  to  the  plate"  and  his  regret  he  had  no  money 
with  him — This  was  an  appeal  I  could  not  resist  and  I 
enabled  him  to  fulfil  his  wish. 

9th. — Leominster  :  Nothing  worthy  of  notice  here, 
the  Church  and  Church  yard  excepted.  Many  of  the 
inscriptions  on  the  tombs  amused  more  than  instructed. 

10th. — Ludlow,  Church  Stretton,  and  Shrews- 
bury. The  Castle  at  Ludlow  and  its  walks  in  particular 
are  worth  the  attention  of  the  stranger — The  weather 
prevented  my  examining  these  ruins  so  minutely  as  i 
wished  to  have  done — The  town  much  as  other  country 
towns,  anything  but  pretty — But  I  saw  it  in  snow. 

nth. — I  visited  Shrewsbury  pretty  fully  except  its 
manufactories.  Its  situation  is  fine,  and  there  are  many 
remains  of  former  greatness. 

Coalbrookdale  is  no  doubt  in  Summer  a  delightful 
spot,  but  even  a  Russian  would  have  felt  cold  the  night  I 
rambled  there — I  was  disappointed  in  the  "  Interna] 
appearance  "  of  this  place,  perhaps  in  better  days  oi 
trade,  it  approaches  more  nearly  to  the  vulgar  idea  of  the 
place  of  future  punishment  "  Where  the  worm  dieth  not 
arid  the  fiie  is  not  quenched." 

12th.— Broseley,  Bridgnorth  and  Kidderminster. 

I  left  the  Dale  before  breakfast,  in  the  midst  of  wind 
and  rain,  enough  to  damp  the  courage  of  any  but  a  veteran 
in  travelling— Had  the  weather  been  other  I  slid  have 
tnjpyed  the  walk  round  the  ruins  of  the  castle  at  Bridg- 
north, as  it  was  I  saw  enough  to  convince  me  of  its  beauty 
—  In  many  towns  thro'  which  I  have  passed  I  have  been 
struck  with  the  singular  appearance  of  many  old  bouses. 


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:  built  of  wood  and  coloured  black  and  white,  the  black 
:   covering  the  pieces  which  support  the  building. — 

One  in  Ludlow  was  ornamented  with  figures,  which 
?  grinned  horribly  at  the  storm  then  falling  nnheedful  in 
'    the  ebon  faces. 

In  Kidderminster  I  do  not  see  the  town  I  had 
fancied  only  11000  inhabitants  and  except  the  manu- 
I  factories  and  a  ]arge  old  church  much  like  other  country 
I  towns. 

m  ■  V"-"   '.  ' '  ■*  -    • - 


From  the  Morning  Post,  22  May,  1823,  Thursday. 

"  From  the  Bath  &  Cheltenham  Chronicle,  of  Tuesday. 

"  We  have  heard  from  good  authority  upon  which  we  can  place 
reliance  that  the  benevolent  Mrs.  Fry  called  on  Neate  at  Marlborough 
on  Thursday  and  made  a  most  powerful  appeal  to  him  to  prevent,  his 
fighting  &  she  offered  him  ^500  to  pay  his  expenses,  forfeits,  etc.,  but  he 
replied  that  he  was  too  deeply  pledged  to  recede,  though  it  is  said  that  he 
promised  her  that  this  should  be  his  last  battle." 

Same  paper,  May  24,  1S23,  Saturday. 

"  The  late  pugilistic  fight. 

;  "  '  Mr.  Editor  My  wife  and  myself  will  be  much  obliged  by  thy 

insertion  in  thy  valuable  paper  of  a  few  words  contradicting  the  absurd 
story  copied   from  a  Bath  and  Cheltenham    Paper,    of    her  having 
1      interfered  to  prevent  the  late  battle  between  Spring  and  Neate,  the 
whole  of  which  is  without  the  slightest  foundation  of  truth  or  probability. 

'  I.  am  respectfully,  etc., 

'  Joseph  Fry. 

'  81,  Mildreds  Court,  22-5-month,  1823.'  " 

Same  paper,  Monday,  May  26,  J 82 3. 

"The  late  pugilistic  fight, 

"It  now  appeais  that  a  Quaker  Lady  (though  not  Mrs,  Fry)  did 
actually  interfere  to  prevent  the  late  great  fight  between  Spring  and 


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M  A  SUBMISSIVE  WIFE'' 


Neat.  The  following  is  given,  as  a  correct  statement  cf  what  occurred  on 
the  occasion  : — 

"  A  fine  old  lady  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  with  a  couple  of  her 
daughters  came  in  their  carriage  to  the  Angel  at  Marlbrp',  during  the  time 
Neat  was  in  training.  The  two  daughters  remained  in  the  carriage  at 
the  door,  while  the  old  Lady  made  her  way  into  the  Angel.  She  ascended 
the  stairs  and  found  Belcher  in  a  room,  sitting  by  himself,  Neat  having 
retired  to  change  his  clothes.  Tom  thought  the  lady  had  mistaken  the 
apartment  in  the  above  Inn,  till  she  addressed  him  :  '  Thy  name 
is  Belcher,  is  it  not,  friend  ?  '  '  Yes,  Madam, '  was  the  reply.  Tom  was 
in  hopes  to  get  rid  of  the  lady  before  Neat  arrived,  but  she  waited  till  the 
Bristol  hero  made  his  appearance.  '  I  understand,  friend  Neat,  thou  art 
abotit  fighl  iag  a  prize  battle.  Dost  thou  not  know  it  is  very  sinful  ?  Be 
advised,  friend,  and  give  it  up.'  Neat  urged  that  he  was  bound  in  hcnoui\ 
and  that  if  he  gave  it  up  he  was  likel}-  to  lose  /500  by  it.  '  What  is  £500 
in  comparison  with  thy  poor  soul  ?  Think  of  that,  Friend.  Give  it  up, 
1  beg  of  thee ;  and  t  will  see  if  the  /500  cannot  be  raised  for  thee.' 
JVfter  an  expostulation  of  nearly  two  hours,  impressed  upon  Neat  with 
tears,  the  old  lad}'  retired  without  obtaining  the  desired  effect.  The 
Bristol  hero,  by  way  of  consolation,  thanked  the  old  Lady  for  the  interest 
and  kindness  she  had  taken  in  his  fate,  and  promised  her  that  he  would  not 
fight  any  more. 

(Neat  was  defeated  on  May  20,  1823.) 


OSHUA  MIDDLETON  of  New-Castle-upon-Tine  son  of  John 
Middletbn  of  Darlington  in  the  County  of  Durham  Draper 
Deceased  and  Jane  Molleson  of  Tewen  Street  London,  Daughter 
of  Gilbert  Molleson,  hate  of  Aberdeen  in  the  Kingdom  of  Scotland  McrchS 
Deceased — this  nineth  Day  of  the  month  called  September  in  the  year 
according  to  the  English  Account  One  Thousand  Six  hundred  Ninety 
and  seven. — in  their  publick  Meeting-place  at  Devonshire  house,  London 
—  the  said  jane  Molleson  Declared  as  followeth — 

"  doe  promise  by  the  Lords  assistance  to  be  a  faithful!  Dutifull 
&  Submissive  wife." 


Pumpeoom  Sermons  (:•:.  I'/J.-Joseph  Hoyknd  Fox,  J.P.,  of 
Wellington,  Som.,  writes: — "  My  uncle,  Sylvanus  Fox,  of  Wellington, 
stayed  at  Bath  for  some  considerable  time  on  account  of  his  health, 
and  preached  in  the  Pump  Room.  He  was  bom  about  1702,  so  that 
in  1 817  he  would  have  been  about  twenty-Jive.  No  doubt  he  was 
the  "  Mr.  Fox  "  referred  to. 


HE  success  of  the  monthly  periodical,  Teachers,  and  Taught,  edited 
hy  S.  Allen  Warner,  of  the  Friends'  First-day  School  Association, 
1.5,  Devonshire  Street,  Bishopsgate,  London.  B.C.,  has  been  quite 
noticeable.  The  paper  was  enlarged  to  twenty-four  pages  at  the 
beginning  of  the  year,  and  it  now  circulates  among  Sunday  Schools  of 
various  sects  to  the  extent  of  3,400  copies  per  month.  Permission  has 
been  requested  for  translation  into  foreign  languages. 

In  connection  with  "  Teachers  and  Taught,"  a  series  of  Text  Books 
is  in  course  of  publication.  A  volume  introductory  to  the  Series  is 
entitled  Concerning  Religious  Education.  It  is  prefaced  by  Alfred  E. 
Garvie,  D.D.,  Principal  of  New  College,  Hampstead,  and  portions 
relating  to  the  Bible,  the  Quid,  and  the  Lesson,  are  written  by  William 
C.  Braithwaite,  A.  Neave  Brayshaw,  Florence  B.  Reynolds,  of  West  Kill, 
Birmingham,  Dr.  Charles  E.  Hodgson,  Principal  Ritchie,  of  the  Congre- 
gational Institute,  Nottingham,  and  the  General  Editor. 

Another  volume  of  the  General  Series  is — Method  in  Religious 
Education,  by  Mildred  F.  Field,  B.A.,  Mistress  of  Method  in  Birmingham 
University. 

These  Text  Books  run  to  about  180  pages  each,  and  are  well  supplied 
with  Bibliographies  and  other  valuable  information  for  teachers,  and 
also  good  Indexes  {London  ;  Headley,  64-  by  4},  cloth  limp  is.  net, 
cloth  boards  is.  6d".  net.) 

S.  Allen  Warner  is  also  editing  a  series  of  "  Teachers  and  Taught" 
Popular  Reprints,  consisting  of  articles  from  either  the  magazine 
known  as  "  Teachers  and  Taught,"  or  from  the  "Teachers  and  Taught " 
Text  Books.  No.  1  is  A  Book  Guide  for  Teachers,  by  Frederic  Taylor ; 
No.  2  A  Guide  to  Religious  Pictures,  by  S.  A.  Warner  ;  No.  3  Our  Older 
Boys,  by  Charles  E.  Stansfield,  M.A.  (London :  Headley,  2d.  and 
3d.  each)  s  No.  4  A  Guide  to  the  Study  of  11  1  he  Unfolding  Life,"  by 
Florence  B.  Reynolds,  id. 

The  Golden  Rule  Calendar,  compiled  by  Marion  E.  Fox,  of  Wellington, 
Som.,  nie  Pease,  of  Darlington,  is  a  valuable  and  attractive  production 
(London  :  Humphreys,  8£  by  6J,  80  leaves,  6d.).  The  extracts,  which 
are  given  under  dates  for  any  years,  are  drawn  from  many  sources  ;  on 
one  page,  e.g.,  are  writings  of  the  late  Emperor  Frederick,  Charles  Dickens, 
Matthew  the  Evangelist,  Lewis  Appleton,  Archibald  Forbes,  John  Milton 
and  Lord  Salisbury.  It  would  have  added  to  the  interest  could  we  have 
known  more  concerning  some  of  the  excerpts  than  the  name  of  the  author. 


The  ancient  Meeting  House  at  Warmswortb,  S.  Yorks,  has  recently 
been  restored  by  its  present  owner,  Mr.  W.  W.  Warde-Aidam,  J. P.,  and 
Friends'  meetings  are  again  held  there  after  a  lapse  of  more  than  a  century. 
The  Doncastcr  Gazette  of  November  29th  lias  a  view  of  the  house  and  also 
a  two-column  article  on  "  A  Link  with  George  Fox." 

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The  historical  work  upon  which  our  Friend,  William  lung  Baker, 
has  been,  engaged  some  time  has  now  been  published — Acton,  Middlesex 
(Acton  :  Gazette  and  Express  Offices,  10  by  7^, pp.  357,  many  illustrations, 
2 is.  net.)  The  Society  of  Friends  is  several  tunes  mentioned,  also  the 
Acton  Adult  School,  and  there  are  several  friendly  illustrations.  W,  King 
Baker  is  to  be  congratulated  on  the  production  of  this  handsome  volume. 
A  slip  of  ten  years  has  been  made  in  the  date  of  George  Fox's  visit  (p.  86). 


M.  Chjistabel  Cadbury.  daughter  of  Joel  Cadbury,  of  Sutton  Coldneld, 
has  rendered  good  service  to  the  cause  of  religious  history  by  her  new  book, 
Robert  Bay  day  [164  3- 1690],  His  Life  and  Work  (London:  Headley, 
7 §  by  5,  pp.  120,  2s.).  The  author  has  given  herself  fully  to  her  subject, 
travelling  specially  in  the  countries  in  which  the  Apologist  resided,  and 
studying  the  literature  of  the  time  ;  the  result  is  a  very  readable  and 
informing  volume.  Barclay's  works  receive  adequate  notice.  The  illus- 
trations are  four — Gordonsioun  House  ;  Ury  ;  the  Barclay  mausoleum ; 
and  the  memorial  in  the  Mausoleum  ;  the  last  two  being  from  photos,  by 
E.  H.  Lawton,  the  Friendly  organ-builder,  of  Aberdeen.  There  is  also  a 
chart  showing  the  parallel  descent  of  the  Barclays  and  the  Royal  House 
of  Stuart. 


7.  Rendel  Harris  has  contributed  a  Preface  to  Environment  and 
Efficiency.  A  Study  in  the  Records  of  Industrial  Schools  and  Orphanages, 
by  Mary  Horner  Thomson,  of  Woodbrooke  Settlement  (London : 
Longmans,  Sf  by  5^,  pp.  ix.  4-  100,  2s.) 


A  History  of  Philadelphia,  by  Charles  Morris,  has  recently  appeared 
fPMla  :  Lipplncott,  y\  by  5,  pp.  viii.  4-  326  +  ix.,  and  with  ninety-three 
illustrations). 


Friends'  Central  Education  Committee  of  London  Y.M.  has  issued 
an  eight-page  pamphlet,  The.  Advantages  of  Friends'1  .Boarding  Schools, 
written  by  "  A  Parent."  This  should  be  widely  circulated,  but  there  is 
no  name  or  address  given,  save  those  of  the  printer.  We  presume  that 
copies  may  be  obtained  from  Charles  E.  Stansheld,  29,  Upper  Redlands 
Road,  Reading, 

The  American  Friend  began  a  new  series  on  First  Month  2.  Hence- 
forward it  is  to  be  edited  from  Richmond,  Ind.,  under  the  authorisation 
of  the  Five  Years  Meeting,  by  S.  Edgar  Nicholson,  late  of  Washington. 
B.C.  The  valuable  services  rendered  by  Rufus  M.  Jones  aud  Herman 
Newman  as  Editors  have  come  to  an  end  amid  a  chorus  of  appreciation 
and  a  spirit  of  hopefulness  for  the  future.  In  1894,  The  A  rnerir.an  Friend's 
carter  of  usefulness  opened,  having  become  the  legatee  of  "  The  Friends' 
Review  "  and  "The  Christian  Worker." 

In  consequence  of  the  above  change,  the  Evangelical  Friend,  of  Cleve- 
land, Ohio  {which  has  run  from  1905  as  a  weekly)  commenced  in 
December  as  a  monthly  publication. 


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The  Christian  World  for  December  5th  contained  some  verses  by 
Mary  E.  Manners,  author  of  "  The  Bishop  and  the  Caterpillar,"  a  Friend 
of  Yorkshire,  entitled  "  A  Kindly  Cri  tic."  Josiah  Beale  has  a  polite  word 
for  all  and  at  the  same  time  is  strictly  truthful;  His  friends  are 
interested  in  what  he  would  say  of  the  cooking  by  one  of  their  number. 

"  Her  bread  was  heavy,  her  tea  cakes  sad  ; 
Her  cooking  all  round  was  uncommonly  bad. 
Richenda  whispered,  with  smile  perverse, 
'  Josiah  will  say  that  "  it  might  have  been  worse."  ' 
'  Few  things  are  worse,'  said  Priscilla.  Wood, 
'Than  the  cooking  of  Martha  ScattergooJ. 
Our  dear  mother  tries  to  make  excuse 
For  early  training  and  want  of  use  ; 
Yet  josiah  himself  could  hardly  praise 
A  household  lost  in  such  shiftless  ways  ; 
Though  Dorcas  maintains  he  will  surely  find 
A  sentence  at  once  both  true  and  kind.'  " 

What  Josiah  said  must  be  read  in  the  paper. 

The  Maryland  Historical  Magazine  for  December  has  an  article  by 
Ella  Kent  Barnard,  a  Friend  of  Baltimore,  on  Isaac  Briggs,  A.M.,  F.A.P.S. 
(1763-1825).  Isaac  Briggs  was  born  of  Quaker  parentage  at  Haverford, 
Pa.  His  father,  Samuel  B.,  was  the  inventor  of  a  machine  for  making 
nails  (1791),  and  his  brother,  Samuel,  took  out  a  patent  for  the  application 
of  steam  to  machinery  and  used  it  successfully  (1803).  Isaac  was  best 
known  as  a  mathematician,  astronomer,  surveyor  and  engineer.  He 
surveyed  and  laid  out  the  city  of  Washington  5  was  appointed  Surveyor- 
General  of  the  "  Louisiana  Purchase,"  1803  ;  was  also  engineer  of  a  section 
of  the  Erie  Canal,  18 17  ;  traced  the  route  between  Washington  and  New 
Orleans,  and  was  Chief  Engineer  of  the  James  River  and  Kanawha  Canal, 
Va.,  1820.  In  1799,  he  prepared  a  "  Friends'  Almanack,"  a  copy  of  which 
is  in  Friends"  Library,  Park  Avenue,  Baltimore.  In  1796  he  was  elected 
a  Fellow  of  the  Philosophical  Society  in  Philadelphia.  In  1797,  he  taught 
school  at  Sandy  Springs,  Md. 

A  copy  of  Isaac  Briggs's  address  before  the  Oneida  Society  for  the 
promotion  of  American  manufactures,  18 17,  is  in  D.  His  death  took  place 
at  his  home  at  Sandy  Springs,  from  malarial  fever  caught  while  surveying 
for  a  canal  from  Baltimore  to  the  Potomac.  President  Jefferson  wrote 
of  him  in  1803  as  "  a  sound  republican  and  of  a  pure  and  unspotted 
character.  In  point  of  science  .  .  .  second  to  no  man  in  the  United 
States." 

In  HSjskolebladet — Tidevdc  for  Folkc  Oplysning,  the  organ  of  the 
Rural  Adult  School  Movement  in  Denmark,  for  January  3,  T913,  there 
is  an  article,  headed  "  Fra  Kvaekernes  Lejr,"  describing  some  of  the 
activities  centred  at  Devonshire  House,  written  by  Hclene  Fengcr,  of 
Copenhagen,  who  spent  some  time  reading  in  Friends  Reference  Library. 


Harlow  Lindley,  A.M.,  Director  of  the  Department  of  Archives  and 
History  in  the  Indiana  State  Library,  also  Librarian  of  Earlham  College, 


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Richmond,  Intl.,  has  recently  contributed  a  useful  paper,  The  Quakers 
in  the  Old  Xorihw-sf,  to  the  Proceedings  of  the  Mississippi  Valley  Historical 
Association,  vol.  v.  Emigration  from  Pennsylvania  southward  is  first 
noted. 

"By  1725  the  settlement  of  Friends  had  passed  the  Susquehanna 
River  westward  and  were  well  on  their  way  to  the  Potomac  southward. 
About.  1730  a  company  composed  principally  of  Friends,  with  Alexander 
Ross  and  James  Wright  at  the  head  of  it,  secured  a  grant  from  the  govern- 
ment of  Virginia,  of  one  hundred  thousand  acres  of  land  in  the  valley  of 
the  Shenandoah  .River,  the  settlers  being  largely  Friends.  In  about  1750, 
Quaker  immigrants  entered  North  Carolina,  and  soon,  after  1760,  South 
Carolina  and  later  Georgia,  being  also  joined  by  other  Friends  coming 
direct  from  the  British  Isles. 

"It  was  mainly  their  opposition  to  slavery  which  caused  Friends  again 
io  transport  tneiiiselves  into  new  sections.  Migration  to  the  Northwest 
began  in  1795.  ...  In  1803,  a  Friend  Minister  named  Zachariah 
"Dicks  passed  through  South  Carolina.  He  was  thought  to  have  the 
gift  of  prophecy.  He  warned  Friends  to  come  out  of  slavery.  He 
told  them  of  a  terrible  internecine  war  not  far  in  the  future.  The  child 
was  then  born  that  would  see  it.  Z.  Dicks's  visit  no  doubt  had  a 
bearing  upon  the  removal  of  Friends  to  the  Northwest,  but  other  causes 
operated  as  well.  .  .  .  The  South  Carolina  Friends  came  first 
to  Miami  County,  Ohio,  and  found  some  Friends  from  Guilford 
County,  North  Carolina,  who  had  come  the  year  before.  The  Miami 
Monthly  Meeting,  the  first  Friends'  business  meeting  established 
in  the  Northwest  Territory,  was  opened  in  1803.  .  .  Some  born 
in  Pennsylvania  lived  to  come  to  Ohio  and  Indiana  with  their 
Carolina- born  children." 

In  the  names  given  to  the  settlements  can  be  traced  the  movements 
above  outlined,  as  e.g.,  New  Garden,  Ireland  ;  New  Garden,  Pa.  ;  New 
Garden,  N.C.  and  Va.  ;  and  New  Garden,  Ind.  and  O.] 


M.  Jennie  Street,  of  London,  a  frequent  writer  in  "  The  Christian 
World,"  has  selected  and  arranged  some  devotional  readings  from  the 
letters  of  Isaac  Penington,  which  are  published  with  the  title  of  The  Seed 
of  the  Kingdom  (London  :  Clarke,  6}  by  4  V,  pp.  96,  is.  net).  Each  extract 
has  a  heading  and  also  a  quotation  from  some  poet.  Miss  Street  write?, 
"  It  was  in  the  twopenny  box  of  a.  second-hand  bookstall  that  I  first 
made  acquaintance  with  Isaac  Penington,  the  Quaker  saint,  and  his 
apostolic  letters.'* 

The  useful  work  on  behalf  of  the  Indians  of  North  America  carried 
on  for  so  many  years  by  Friends  is  still  being  worthily  upheld.  George 
Vaux,  Jim.,  Quaker  lawyer,  of  Philadelphia,  and  a  member  of  the  Board 
of  Indian  Commissioners  ("a  body  cf  unpaid  citizens,  appointed  by  the 
Presideut.  Its  legal  duties  are  to  visit  and  inspect  branches  of  the  Indian 
Servire  and  to  co  operate  in  the  purchase  and  inspection  of  Indian 
supplies  has  recently  visited  Chicago  and  St.  Louis,  as  chairman  of  the 
Purchasing  Committee,  and  travelled  extensively  in  the  State  of  Oklahoma 
visiting  many  outlying  settlements  of  Indian  tribes.  Vivid  accounts  of 
our  Friend's  travels  may  be  found  in  the  Forty-third  Annual  Report  of 
the  Commissioners  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Interior,  Washington,  I9i:> 


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and  also  the  December  issue  of  The  Red  Man,  an  illustrated  magazine  for 
Indians  (Carlisle,  Pa.),  in  which  are  pictures  of  some  of  the  homes  of  the 
Cherokees,  Creeks,  and  Choctaws,  of  Oklahoma. 

In  The  Red  May;,  there  is  also  a  sympathetic  allusion  to  the  death 
of  Albert  Keith  Smiley  (1828-1912),  of  N.Y.  and  Cal.,  philanthropist  and 
hotel-keeper. 

The  yearly  reminder  of  Friends  gone  from  this  scene  of  action, 
The  Annual  Monitor,  appeared  at  the  end  of  the  year,  again  edited  by 
Francis  A.  Knight  (Gloucester  :  Bellows,  5|-  by  4$,  pp.  1S0,  is.  6d.  net). 
The  Editor  supplies  a  succinct  history  of  the  little  book  for  the  hundred 
years  of  its  publication.  There  are  twenty-six  memoirs  and  seventeen 
portraits.  Some-  of  the  latter  must  have  been  taken  long  years  before  the 
date  of  decease.  The  average  age  at  death  in  1911-12  was  sixty-five, 
greater  than  for  some  past  years. 


For  the  fifth  time  The  Friends'  Year  Booh  has  made  its  appearance, 
replete  with  information  regarding  the  work  of  Friends  in  many  fields 
(London:  Headiey,  6\  by  4,  pp.  168,  cloth  boards,  rounded  edges, 
is.  net). 

Peace  Pioneering  in  Germany  is  the  title  of  the  record  of  the  visits 
of  Adult  Scholars  to  Germany  in  1912.  It  is  compiled  by  Maurice  L. 
Rowntree,  B.  A.,  el  al,  and  illustrated  (London  :  Headiey,  ■/}  by  4I-, 
pp.  xii.  +  104,  3d.). 

A  useful  summary  of  Canon  Grane's  recent  book,  "The  Passing  of 
War,"  written  by  James  Herbert  Midgley,  entitled  Things  that  make- for 
Peace,  can  be  obtained  from  the  Peace  Committee  of  London  Y.M., 
136,  Bishopsgate,  E.C.,  at  i^d.  each,  or  one  dozen  for  yd.  post  free. 


The  first  of  a  series  of  articles  by  Robert  Muschamp  on  "  Quakers 
and  Bolton,"  appeared  in  the  Bolton  Chronicle,  for  February  8. 


In  the  Wigan  Examiner  for  7  March,  there  is  an  article,  signed 
W.  Smith,  on  "The  Rise  of  Quakerism  at  Westhoughton,"  partly  taken 
from  the  journals  of  Thomas  Shillitoe  and  Joseph  Buckley  and  partly 
from  personal  knowledge. 

Harper's  Monthly  Magazine  tor  January  ha?-;  a  good  article  on 
"  Pronouns  of  Address,"  written  by  Prof.  Thomas  R.  Lounsbury,  of 
Yale,  which  contains  some  notice  of  Friends'  early  insistence  on  the  use 
of  the  second  person  singular  when  addressing  one  individual. 

The  Book/nan  for  March,  quoting  an  article  by  Davidson  Cook,  in  the 
Millgaie  Monthly ,  on  "  Carlyle's  Bookplate  and  its  Designer,"  adds,  "  The 
designer,  Mr.  Henry  Thomas  Wake,  is  still  living,  and  now  over  eighty- 
two  years  of  age.    Mr.  Cock  came  upon  him  in  the  village  of  Fritchley, 

Vol.  z«— ri*. 


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in  Derbyshire,  where  he  keeps  a  second-hand  book  shop.  '  A  fine  old 
Quaker,  lovable  at  sight,  interesting  withal,  and  himself  the  best  book  in 
his  collection — a  living  book  about  books.'  " 


Notices  have  reached  the  Office  of  a  new  historical  work,  Welsh 
Settlement  of  Pennsylvania,  in  which  Friends  appear  to  fill  a  large  place. 
It  is  a  book  of  625  pages,  and  the  price  is  $6. So,  delivery  paid.  Apply 
to  Charles  H.  Browning,  Ardrnoie  P.O.,  Pa.,  U.S.A. 

Evelyn  Underh'll,  author  of  "  Mysticism,"  has  put  forth  another  book 
on  the  same  subject,  entitled  The  Mystic  Way,  the  object  of  which  is  "  to 
trace  out  that  type  of  life  which  is  called  '  mystical,'  from  its  earliest 
appearance  within  Christianity,"  There  is,  in  this  book,  an  interesting 
parallel  worked  out  between  the  Apostle  Paul  and  George  Fox. 

"The  whole  preparatory  experience  of  Fox,  whose  character  provides 
so  many  Pauline  parallels,  may  help  us  to  understand  something  of  this 
phase  in  Paul's  life — the  difficult  changes  which  prepared  him  for  the 
emergence  of  the  '  illuminated  consciousness,'  the  personal  interior 
'  showing,'  or  revelation,  which,  became  the  central  fact  of  his  new  career." 
(See  Index,  s,  v.  Fox.) 

Another  work  on  mysticism  has  also  reached  Devonshire  House 
Reference  Library — Mysticism  in  Christianity,  by  W.  K.  Fleming,  M.A., 
B.D.,  of  the  College  of  Allhallows  Barking,  E.C.,  in  the  "  Library  of 
Historic  Theology  "  (London  :  Robert  Scott,  9  by  5f,  pp.  282,  5s.  net). 
Chapter  xii.  deals  with  "  Puritan  Mystics — Bunyan  and  Fox." — "  In 
George  Fox.  we  have  the  mystic  who  is  seer  and  prophet."  In  the  body 
he  founded,  "  mysticism,  not  for  the  first  time,  proves  itself  a  direct 
agent  for  the  most  practical  issues  of  life." 

In  part  6  of  Lancashire  Stories  (London  :  Jack,  in  fourteen  parts,  at 
yd.  net),  there  is  a  sketch  of  the  life  of  George  Fox,  with  portrait  and  views 
of  Sv/arthmoor  Hall  and  Frandly  Meeting  House. 

The  Biddle  Press,  of  Philadelphia,  has  brought  out  a  little  book  of 
stories,  entitled  Edith's  Silver  Comb.  The  author,  Emma  Taylor 
Lamborn,  is  a  sister  of  the  late  Bayard  Taylor,  and  resides  at  Kennett 
Square,  Pa.  She  writes  that  "  Steadfast  Love,  a  Quaker  Idyl,"  is  "  every 
word  true  "  ;  "  Edith's  Silver  Comb  "  and  "  How  Dorcus  brought  the 
Turkey  to  her  Mistress,"  are  also  true  stories.  "  In  Pemberton  Woods  " 
is  founded  on  fact  (7  by  5,  pp.  126,  75  cents). 

The  author  of  "  Elizabeth  Fry  "  and  other  books,  Georgina  King 
Levis,  has  written  another  biography — John  Greenleaf  Whit  tier,  his  Life 
and  Work  (London:  Headley,  9  by  $£,  pp.  221,  33.  6d.  net).  The 
writer's  object  has  been  "  to  portray  what  manner  of  man  Whittier 
was;  his  poetic  genius;  the  way  in  which  he  met  difficulties,  financial 
and  otherwise  ;  the  sacrifice  he  made  for  those  whom  he  loved  ;  the 
abandonment  of  all  ambitions  for  the  cause  of  freedom  ;  and  the  genuine 


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FRIENDS  IN  CURRENT  LITERATURE  in 


humility  and  sense  of  humour  which  sweetened  his  day-./'  and  her  success 
in  this  has  produced  a  very  informing  volume,  which  should  be  read  by 
many  who  use  Whittier's  verses  but  know  little  or  nothing  of  their 
author. 


The  papers  by  William  C.  Braithwaite  and  Henry  T.  Hodgkin,  read 
at  the  Five  Years  Meeting,  published  in  Philadelphia  by  the  John  C. 
Winston  Co.,  for  60  cents,  postage  paid,  have  now  been  reprinted  by 
Headley  Brothers,  and  can  be  had  for  one  shilnng  net.  The  title  is  The 
Message  and  Mission  of  Quakerism. 

An  illustrated  pamphlet  has  recently  come  to  hand  descriptive  of  the 
"  Welfare  Work  "  carried  on  at  the  famous  biscuit  firm  of  W.  and  R. 
Jacob  &  Co.,  Ltd.,  of  Dublin,  of  which  W.  Frederick  Bewley  (Clerk  of  the 
Yearly  Meeting  of  Friends  in  Ireland)  is  the  head.  This  biscuit  factory 
was  established  in  Waterford  in  1851,  and  about  two  years  later  removed 
to  Dublin.  About  1,000  men  and  boys  and  1,800  girls  are  now  employed 
by  the  firm. 

The  American  Friends'  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  (Richmond,  Ind.) 
has  just  sent  out  a  useful  and  interesting  volume  of  sketches  of  the  various 
mission  fields  under  its  care.  It  is  a  work  of  255  pages,  well  illustrated, 
and  is  titled,  Foreign  Mission  Work  of  Amer  ican  Friends.  A  Brief 
History  of  Their  Work  from  the  Beginning  io  the  Year  Nineteen  Hundred 
and  Twelve.  The  introduction  is  from  the  pen  of  Anna  B.  Thomas,  and 
the  fields  described  by  various  authorities  are  Mexico,  Cuba,  Africa, 
Jamaica,  Alaska,  Palestine,  Japan,  China,  India,  and  Guatemala. 

A  story  founded  on  Quaker  family  history,  entitled  Dorothy  Day, 
appeared  in  1911,  written  by  William  Dudley  Foulke  (Xew  York: 
Cosmopolitan  Press,  7 $  by  5,  pp.  279,  Si. 25  net).  W.  D.  Foulke  is  one 
of  the  leading  inhabitants  of  Richmond,  Ind. — an  Attorney,  a  Scholar,  and 
a  Statesman,  and  a  Hicksite  Friend.  We  presume  that  his  book  is,  at  the 
foundation,  autobiographical  ;  it  follows  the  life  of  a  Quaker  boy  (who 
becomes  less  Quakerly  as  time  passes) — home,  school,  cpllege,  travel, 
and  then  through  the  Civil  War  in  the  Union  army.  The  title  seems 
inappropriate,  as  Dorothy  appears  quite  seldom  in  the  narrative.  The 
book  is  the  work  of  an  accomplished  author.  Norman  Penney. 


ffiHE  decease  of  Dr.  Thomas  Hodgkin  has  deprived  the  F.H  S.  of  a 
>*i  valuable  counsellor  and  guide.  When  at  the  Yearly  Meeting  of  1903, 
the  F.H.S.  was  established,  Dr.  Hodgkin  was  appointed  its  President. 
Rewrote  an  Introduction  to  The,  First  Publishers  0/  Truth,  and  heartily 
encouraged  the  publication  of  the  manuscript  of  The  Journal  of 
George  Fox.  His  death  took  place  at  his  southern  home,  near 
Falmouth,  on  the  2nd  of  Third  Mouth. 


HE  MSS.  now  catalogued  in  D.  as  "  Richardson  MSS."  were  pre- 
sented  to  the  Friends'  Reference  Library,   during    191 1,  by 
Emma  R.  Purnphrey. 
The  collection  consists  of  six  quarto  volumes  of  MS.  which  belonged 
to  George  Richardson,  of  Newcastle  (1773-1862). 

Ceorge  Richardson  was  a  prominent  Friend  in  the  first  half  of  the 
nineteen  tli.  century.  He  journeyed  many  thousands  of  miles  as  Guide  to 
American  Ministers  visiting  England,  and  was  himself  a  valuable  Minister, 
1 1  iv<  iling,  as  such,  over  the  greater  part  of  England,  Wales,  Scotland, 
the  Channel  Islands,  and  Ireland. 

Volumes  I. -III.  of  the  MSS.  contain  extracts,  many  of  them  in 
G.  Richardson's  own  handwriting,  from  various  sources,  which  give 
evidence  of  wide  reading  as  v.- ell  as  of  much  freer  time  for  writing  than 
is  the  case  at  the  present  day. 

Volume  IV.  is  a  collection  of  some  eighty  "  Letters  from.  Ministers  " 
dating  from  1803  to  1852.  The  letter  of  the  last  date  is  one  from  J.  Bevan 
Braithwaite  thanking  G.  Richardson  for  his  comments  on  J.  J.  Gurney's 
Essays.  J.  Bevan  Braithwaite,  referring,  no  doubt,  to  the  Memoirs  of 
J.  j.  Gumey,  on  which  he  was  then  engaged,  says:  "  I  have  no  intention 
of  entering  into  any  elaborate  review  of  J.  J.  G.'s  works;  as  I  think 
that  such  attempts  are  very  seldom,  if  ever,  either  interesting  or  profit- 
able to  the  reader.  Besides  which  I  have  a  strong  principle  against 
making  any  man's  writings  a  touchstone  of  opinion,  which  is  almost 
always  the  result,  practically,  of  sajdng  a  great  deal  about  them.  Let 
the  writings  of  our  late  dear  Friend  be  read  with  the  same 
discrimination,  the  same  seriousness,  the  same  openness  to  receive  the 
Truth,  and  the  same  candour  and  willingness  to  make  due  allowance, 
with  which  we  should  desire  to  read  the  writings  of  our  early  Friends. 
This  is  all  I  would  ask  for  them." 

Volume.  V.,  "  Miscellaneous  Letters,"  contains  about  one  hundred 
letters,  most  of  them  from  Friends,  many  of  them  asking  for  advice 
and  help  in  matters  temporal  and  spiritual,  and  more  thanking  George 
Richardson  for  help  given. 

One  group  of  letters,  addressed  to  Eleanor  Richardson  by  E.  S. 
Chambers  from  Ackworth,  contains  interesting  references  to  the  school 
life  of  the  children  from  1819  to  1827. 

.  Another  group  of  letters  concerns  the  starting  of  a  school  at  Black 
Boy  Colliery,  Bishop  Auckland,  by  the  family  of  Jonathan  Backhouse  ; 
and  the  training  of  a  certain  William  Fuller,  of  Arbroath,  a  prottge  of 
Jonathan  Backhouse's,  for  the  position  of  schoolmaster. 

Volume  VI.  is  a  copy  of  a  R.ccord  kept  by  George  Richardson  of 
"  visits  paid  by  Public  Friends  to  Newcastle  and  neighbouring  Meetings 
from  1800  to  1.850. 

Elsie  M.  Smith. 


112 


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A  Lancashire  Quaker  re- 
ferred to  by  Macau  lay. — In 
Macaulay's  History  of  England, 
cap.  XXI..,  reference  is  made  to 
"  an  honest  Quaker,"  from  one  of 
the  "  northern  districts,"  who 
has  recorded  "  in  notes  still 
extant,"  that  when,  he  went  on  a 
journey  to  London  the  people  in 
the  towns  he  passed  through  were 
amazed  at  the  sight  of  the  broad 
and  heavy  half- crowns  with  which 
he  paid  his  way.  This  was  in  con- 
sequence of  the  terrible  debasement 
of  the  coinage  during  the  reign 
of  William  and  Mary.  Clipped 
and  light-weight  money  was  then 
an  almost  universal  bane  through- 
out England.  Macaulay  mentions 
in  a  foot-note  that  a  few  years 
before  the  time  when  he  wrote, 
the  memoirs  of  this  Lancashire 
Quaker  had  been  printed  in  the 
Manchester  Guardian.  Who  was 
this  Quaker,  and  have  his  Memoirs 
been  published  in  any  other  form 
than  the  newspaper  referred  to  ? — 
Joseph  Coleman,  154,  Wakefield 
Street,  Adelaide,  S.A. 


Wandsworth,  S.W. —  "At  a 
Vestry  held  on  15th  August,  1742, 
Mr.  Edward  Halsey,  Mr.  Gravat 
Philips  and  Mr.  John  Grey,  three 
Quakers,  residing  upon  the  East 
Hill,  and.  others  complaining  that 
the  Hon.  Mr.  Digby  had  removed 
the  two  gates  that  lately  opened 
at  the  east  and  west  end  of  the  Walk 
before  the  front  of  his  house  and 
placed  them  on  the  north  side  of 
the  said  Walk  the  one  about  three 
and  the  other  about  6  yards  from 
the  East  and  West  end  thereof,  and 


the  said  Halsey  on  behalf  of  him- 
self and  his  Brethren  aliedging 
amongst  other  things  that  the 
said  two  gates  were  not  wide 
enough  for  their  wives'  Hoopc 
Petticoats  ;  and  James  D unwell 
a  waterman  also  residing  upon  the 
said  hill  complaining  that  lie  could 
not  so  conveniently  as  before  drive 
his  wheel-barrow  into  the  said 
walk 

And  the  Parish  taking  the  said 
complaints  into  their  considera- 
tion 

Resolved  that  this  Parish  is 
content  that  the  several  and 
respective  gates  of  the  Hon.  Mr. 
Digby's  walk  do  remain  as  and 
where  they  are  now  placed  without 
his  causing  any  other  gate  or 
opening  to  be  made  in  or  about 
the  said  walk." — From  Wands- 
worth Notes  and  Queries,  p.  117. 

Information  sent  by  Cecil  T. 
Davis,  Librarian  of  Wandsworth 
Public  Library. 


William  Masse  y. — In  the 
Central  Library  (Stratford)  of  the 
West  Ham  Public  Libraries  is  a 
scarce  little  work  by  Massey.  A 
copy  is  not  in  the  British  Museum 
(1900},  nor  is  it  mentioned  in 
Joseph  Smith's  Catalogue. 
Rules  and  Maxims 
of 

Moral  Conduct 
In  Verse 
to  be 

Spoken  extempore  by  Boys 
at 

Breakiugs-up. 
By  William  Massey 
Late  Master  of  a  Boarding  School 
at  Wandsworth. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES 


Doctrina  scd  vim  promovetinsitam 
Rectique  cultus  pectora  roborant. 
— Horace.'- 
London  : 
Printed  by  T.  and  J.  W.  Pasham, 
in  Blackfriars. 
1764. 

— A  typed  copy  of  this  tract  is  in 
the  possession  of  Cecil  T.  Davis, 
Librarian  of  Wandsworth  Public 
Library. 

Mateen,  of  Silesia. — "  Hallo- 
way  Lourc,  [torn  c.  i\-  inches] 
London.  These  are  to  Certify, 
Thatt  [tonic.  i|]  f[o]urteenthday 
of  the  Third  Month  called  May,  one 
Thousand  six  hundred  Seventy 
and  Six,  There  was  a  Daughter 
borne  vnto  Hans  Matern  (late  of 
Siletia)  and  Rosy  n  a  his  wife,  Who 
In  Remembrance  of  ye  mercies 
of  the  Lord,  called  her  name 
Hannah,  Because  the  Lord  has  not 
been  a  Stranger  to  them,  in  a 
Strang  Land ;  And  we  vnder- 
written  being  then  present  doe  as 
witnesses  thereunto  Subscribe  our 
nanies. 

Priscilla  Hart 

Ruth  Crouch 

Sarah  follett 

Jane  Sowle 

Anne  Edwards 

Ma rg a rett  Harison,  midwife. 

Barbara  Prachin,  Grandmother. 

Abigail  Ducie." 

— MS.  No.  2  of  Quaker  Records, 

London  and  Middlesex,  No.  1478A, 

in   Somerset    House,   London. — 

Copied  by  Albert  Cook  Myers. 


An  Interrupted  Burial. — 
"  The  Death  and  BurnaUs  of 
jTricnds  in  walton  Jfelixstow  and 
therabouts. 

1 "  Best  teaching  draws  forth  the 
power  with|n 

And  cultured  minds  are  strong.*'  | 


"  Sarah  jfryer  dyed  the  ye  14th 
day  of  y*  11th  mo  1659  and  the 
16th  day  of  ye  Same  month  we 
haveing  noe  burring  place  of  or 
owne  we  Carried  the  Body  to 
Harwich  to  be  burried  But  the 
mayor  Milles  Hubbard  and  the 
townesmen  in  their  Rage  and 
madnes  tooke  y8  body  jTrom  us 
and  Sent  it  backe  againe  and  Sett 
it  vpon  the  Sea  Shoore  vpon  the 
Stones  and  So  left  it  wher  it 
remained  jf  or  Some  time  vnburried 
how  Shce  came  Conveied  away 
we  are  not  Certaine  but  by  the 
Impretion  of  the  Shingell  or 
Stones  we  Conceive  The  Body 
might  bs  interred  in  the  Sand." — 
MS.  Friends'  Register  for  Monthly 
Meeting  of  Woodbridge,  Suffolk, 
No.  io3o3  Somerset  House,  London, 
p.  189. — Copied  by  Albert  Cook 
Myers. 


Early  Swarthmore  Register. 
—  "A  Chronology  or  Record  Of 
the  Births  Marriages  and  BuriaUs 
of  many  of  the  people  of  God  of 
Swarthmore  Monthly  meeting  (in 
scorne  called— Quakers)  since  the 
time  of  their  Seperation  from  the 
World  :  That  the  generations 
to  come  may  know  that  our 
Geneologie  is  not  lost  nor  our 
Account  numbred  with  The 
Uncircumcised." — Title  page  of 
register  of  Swarthmore  Meeting, 
Lancashire,  No.  1259,  in  Somerset 
House,  London.  Copied  by 
Albert  Cook  Myers. 


Spiritual  Heraldry." — Richard 
Claridge,  a  learned  and  eminent 
Friend,  received  from  a  relative 
the  genealogy  of  his  family  taken 
from  the  Heralds  office,  on  which 
occasion  he  wrote,  "There  is  a 
pedigree  [the  Christian]  which  is 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES 


noble  indeed  and  worthy  of  our 
most  diligent  search  and  earnest 
enquiry.  To  be  the  children  of 
God  and  co-heirs  with  Christ  .  .  . 
thiSj  this,  my  dear  Kinsman,  is  far 
above  all  this  sublunary  world. 
Oh  let  this  divine  and  spiritual 
heraldry  be  our  main  care  and 
concern  omitting  no  opportunity 
under  those  blessed  means  which 
are  afforded  us,  to  make  our 
calling  and  election  sure." 


Diarv  of  Ann  Young  (x.  41). 
— The  present  owner  of  this  MS., 
who  prefers  to  remain  anonymous, 
called  recently  at  Devonshire 
House.  He  states  that  there  is 
practically  nothing  of  historical 
or  general  interest  in  this  Diary. 


A  Priest,  having  taken  a  cow 
from  a  Quaker,  for  what  he  called 
his  due,  was  met  by  an  Indian 
(supposed  to  be  an  American 
Indian),  who  said  to  the  Priest  : — 
Indian.  Where  got  you  that  cow  ? 
Priest.  From  the  Quaker. 
Indian.  What  makes  you  take  the 

Quaker's  cow  ? 
Priest.    Because  the  Quaker  won't 

pay  rne. 

Indian.  Do  Quaker  man  owe  you 

ought  ? 
Priest.  Yes. 
Indian.  For  what  ? 
Priest.    For  preaching. 
Indian.  Oh  ;  you  a  Minister,  are 

you  ? 
Triest.  Yes. 

Indian.  But  do  Quaker  man  hear 
you  ? 

Priest.  He  may  if  he  will,  our 
Church  doors  are  open. 

Indian.  So  you  may  hear  Quaker 
man,  if  you  will,  for  the 

Quaker  man's  Meeting 
House  doors  are  open  as 


US 

well  as  yours  ;  but  if  you 
don't  hear  Quaker  man, 
Quaker  man  will  not  take 
your  cow  from  you  ;  but 
you  a  Minister  its  like, 
who  made  you  a  Minister, 
if  God  make  you  a 
Minister,  God  pay  his 
Ministers.,  if  man  make 
you  a  Minister,  man  pay 
you,  but  not  Quaker  man, 
because  Quaker  man  don't 
hear  you.  Go  carry 
Quaker  man  his  cow 
again. 

Copied  from  a  4 to  MS.  book  in 
the  possession  of  C.  D.  Sturge, 
with  the  following  inscription  in 
front :  "  Found  amongst  Hannah 
Sturge's  papers,  Oct.  22,  1896. 
Supposed  to  have  come  from 
Coalbrookdale." 


Friends  Meeting  at  Dal- 
mailing  in  1795. — We  had  like- 
wise, shortly  after  the  "  omnes 
exeunt  "  of  the  players,  an 
exhibition  of  a  different  sort  in  the 
same  barn.  This  was  by  two 
English  quakers,  and  a  quaker 
lady,  tanners  from  Kendal,  who 
had  been  at  Ayr  on  some  leather 
business,  where  they  preached,  but 
made  no  proselytes.  The  travel- 
lers were  all  three  in  a  whisky, 
drawn  by  one  of  the.  best  ordered 
horses,  as  the  hostler  at  the  Cross- 
keys  told  me,  ever  seen.  They 
came  to  the  inn  to  their  dinner, 
and  meaning  to  stay  all  night,  sent 
round,  to  let  it  be  known  that  they 
would  hold  a  meeting  in  friend 
Thackian's  barn  ;  but  Thomas 
denied  they  were  either  kith  or  kin 
to  him  ;  this,  however,  was  their 
way  of  speaking. 

In  the  evening,  owing  to  the 
notice,  a  great  congregation  was 


1x6 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES 


assembled  in  the  barn,  and  I 
myself,  aloiig  with  Mr.  Archibald 
Dozendale,  went  there  likewise, 
to  keep  the  people  in  awe  ;  for  we 
feared  the  strangers  might  be 
jeered  and  insulted.  The  three 
were  seated  aloft,  on  a  high  stage, 
prepared  on  purpose  with  two 
mares  and  scaffold-deals,  borrowed 
from  Mr.  Trowe !  the  m  ason .  They 
sat  long,  and  silent ;  but  at  last 
the  spirit  moved  the  woman,  and 
she  rose,  'and  delivered  a  very 
sensible  exposition  of  Christianity. 
I  was  really  surprised  to  hear  such 
sound  doctrine  ;  and  Mr.  Dozen- 
daJe  said,  justly,  that  it  was  more 
to  the  purpose  than  same  that  my 
younger  brethren  from  Edinburgh 
endeavoured  to  teach.  So,  that 
those  who  went  to  laugh  at  the 
sincere  simplicity  of  the  pious 
quakers,  were  rebuked  by  a  very 
edifying  discourse  on  the  moral 
duties  of  a  Christian's  life. — 
From  Annals  of  the  Parish  or  the 
Chronicle  of  Dahnailing,  during 
the  Ministry  of  ike  Rev.  Micah 
Balwhidder,  written  by  himself. 
Edinburgh,  1S21,  pp.  294,  295. 
Who  were  the  Kendal  Friends? 

[AH  the  recorded  ministers 
at  this  time,  1795,  whom  1 
remember,  were  George  Braith- 
waite,  dry  Salter,  William 
Ferguson,  ccrdwai.ner,  and  Alice 
Eigge.  The  tan-yard  in  Stramon- 
gate  adjoining  the  meeting-house 
was  the  property  of  and  carried  on 
by  James  Wilson,  whose  descen- 
dant, Wilson  Sutton,  died  in  York 
Retreat,  1816,  but  I  never  heard 
that  they  were  ministers.  The  large 
building  at  the  foot  of  Jennings 
yard  was  the  place  where  the  firm 
of  Messrs.  Ferguson  &  Brown 
carried  on  tlvir  leather  and  shoe 
trade.     It  was  a  great  grief  to  the 


Society  that  William  Ferguson 
should  have  a  partner  (Brown) 
who  was  a  Unitarian.  Will  i  am 
made  use  of  flowery  language, 
and  liked  to  be  heard,  so  I  have 
been  informed  by  old  people. — 
Thomas  Jennings.] 


List  of  Patents  granted  to 
Thomas  Motley. — 

No.  35S7.  22julyi8i2.  T.M. 
of  Bristol,  ironmonger.  "  Making 
letters  or  characters  for  signs,  shew 
boards,  shop  fronts  etc.,  and  for 
indicating  names  or  words  in 
relief  in  a  conspicuous  manner." 

No.  4264.  19  May  181 8.  T.M. 
of  the  Strand,  co.  Middx.,  patent 
letter  manufacturer.    "  Ladders." 

No.  4621.  27  Nov.  1 82 1.  T.M. 
of  the  Strand,  co.  Middx.,  patent 
letter  maker.  "  Candlesticks, 
lamps  and  candles." 

No.  86 J  8.  7  Sept.  1840.  T.M. 
of  Bath  Villa,  Totterdown,  Bristol, 
civil  engineer.  "  Apparatus  for 
burning  concrete  fatty  matters." 
[Lamp  for  burning  tallow.] 

No.  1 25 1 4.  14  March,  1840. 
T.M.  of  Bristol,  civil  engineer,  and 
Thomas  Clarke,  of  Hackney,  co. 
Middx.,  engineer.  "  Obtaining 
and  applying  motive  power,  im- 
provements in  railroads  and  other 
roads,  and  in  supporting  pressure, 
resisting  strain,  and  protecting 
against  fire." 

Thomas  Motley,  who  was  cer- 
tainly a  Friend,  wrote  a  letter, 
dated  from  Bristol,  to  a  Mr.  Clive, 
on  the  subject  of  a  suspension 
bridge  at  Tiverton,  published  in 
the  Mechanics  Magazine,  of 
September  23,  1843,  vol.  xxxix., 
p.  227, 

Information  from  K.  H. 
Pp.osser,  London,  1905. 


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FRIENDS  HISTORICAL  SOCIETY 

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/Rsfs^HE  following  list  is  printed  from  a  copy,  made  by 
Edward  Stabler,  Jim.,  of  Baltimore,  Md.,  from 
a  book  in  his  possession  once  belonging  to 
Joseph  Townsend,  a  prominent  Friend,  who 
removed  from  Pa.  to  Baltimore  towards  the  end  of 
the  eighteenth  century.  Joseph  Townsend  was  Clerk 
of  Baltimore  M.M.  about  1816,  when  these  records  were 
made.  The  book  was  given  to  E.  Stabler,  Jim.,  about 
twenty  years  ago  by  Dr.  John  Shotwell  Townsend, 
grandson  of  Joseph.  In  the  same  MS.  are  the  names 
of  American  Friends  visiting  Great  Britain  and  of 
deceased  Ministers  and  Elders  of  Baltimore  Y.M. 

1656.    Mar}7  Fisher  and  Ann  Austin  from  England. 
l657-    Josiah  Coale,1  Near  Bristol.    Mary  Clarke,2 
London. 

1659.  William  Robinson,  London  &  Marmaduke 
Stephenson^  from  Yorkshire.  P>oth  were  put  to  death 
at  Boston  for  their  religion.    John  Taylor  from  York  shire. 

1661.  George  YVillson,  England,  was  persecuted  to 
death,  at  James  Town,  Virginia.  Elizabeth  Ilooton  and 
Joan  Brokesup,-  England.  Catharine  Chatham,5  Loudon, 
She  went  through  man}r  Exercises  to  Boston,  and  appeared 
in  Sack  death  as  a  sign  of  the  Lords  Judgments  coming 
upon  them. 

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1662.  John  Taylor,  a  second  time,  England.  Ann 
Robinson6  and  Oswell  Heritage,6  both  died  in  Jamaica 
in  their  Travels.  Lydia  Oates  [Oades],7  from  England. 
Mary  Tomkins8  &  Alice  Amborn,8  England. 

1665.    John  Bunryeat,  Cumberland. 

1670.  Do.  Second  time.  William  Simpson,  Lan- 
cashire :  he  died  at  Barbadoes  in  his  Travels. 

167X  George  Fox,  England.  William  Edmondson, 
Ireland,  Robert  Widders,  John  Stubbs,  James  Lancaster, 
George  Patison,  Solomon  Eccles,  John  Cartwrite,  Thomas 
Briggs,  John  Hall,  John  Rouse,  William  Bayley,  England. 
Elizabeth  Root  on,  Second  time,  E.    Elizabeth  Miers,  E. 

1675.  William  Edmondson,  a  Second  time,  Ireland. 

1676.  Thomas  Cur  wen  &  Alice,  his  wife,  England. 
1678.    Thomas  Fletcher,9  &  John  Hay  dock,  England. 
1GS0.    Joan  Vokins10  &  Sarah  Clarke,11  England. 

1682.  William  Penn  and  James  Martin,12  England. 

1683.  William  Edmondson,  Third  time,  Ireland. 
1GS5.    James  Martin,  a  second  time,  England. 
1687.    John  Hutton,13  England. 

1691.  Thomas  Willson/4  &  James  Dickenson,1*  E. 
&  Ireland. 

1694.    Thomas  Musgrave,16  Yorkshire. 

i6qs.  Robert  Barrow,1?  Westmoreland,  &  Robert 
Wardell,18  Durham. 

1696.  Henry  Pay  ton,  ^  Jonathan  Tyler,20  England. 
James  Dickenson,  Second  time.    Jacob  Fallowheid,21  E. 

}6qS.  William  Ellis,22  Aaron  Atkinson,23  Thomas 
CfeatrMey;4*  Thomas  Turner,2^  Marv  Rogers,26  Elizabeth 
Webb,2?  Roger  Gill/8  died  at  Philadelphia,  1699,  the 
time  b&fche  great  Sickness  there.  Thomas  Story,2*  England. 

1700.  John  Salkeld,3°  from  England,  Cumberland. 
Thomas  Thompson, 31  Josiah  Langdale'32  John  Estaugh,33 
Jno.  Richardson, 34  Sarah  Clement,3*  E. 

1703.  Samuel  Bownas,36  England. 

1704.  Thomas  Turner,  a  second  time.  Josepa 
Glaistcr,3?  Mary  Bannister,38  Mary  Eherton,3?  E. 

1705.  John  Fothergill/0  &  William  Armistead/1  B. 
1707.    Samuel  Wilkinson/2  Patrick  Henderson.^1 
1709.    William  Baldwin,^  Lancashire. 

1714.  Thomas  Wilson,  Second  time,  James  Dicken- 
son, Third  time. 


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1716.  Thomas  Thompson,  Second  time,  Josiah 
Langdale,  Second  time.  William  Armstrong/4  from 
England.  James  Grahame,**  from  Ed.,  died  at  Burlington 
in  his  travels. 

1717.  Benjamin  Holmes,45  Yorkshire,  Ed. 

1 71 9.  John  Danson/6  &  Isaac  Hadwin,*7  Ed.  John 
Oxley,*8  Lydia  Lancaster,-*0  Elizabeth  Rawlinson,s°  & 
Rebecca  Turner,51  Ed. 

1721.  John  Appleton, 52  Lincolnshire.  John  Fother- 
gili,  Second  time,  Lawrence  King,5^  Yorkshire.  Margaret 
Pare.,54  England. 

1723.    Benjamin  Kidd,55  Yorkshire. 

1725.  Abigail  Bowless,56  of  Ireland. 

1726.  William  Piggott,57  London. 

1727.  Joshua  Fielding,58  Joseph  Taylor,59  Rowland 
Wilson,60  E< 

1728.  Samuel  Bownas,  Second  time. 

1731.  Paul  Johnson,61  from  Dublin,  Ireland.  John 
Richardson,  Second  time,  Henry  Frankland,62  Yorkshire. 

1732.  Mungo  Bewley,6-3  Samuel  Stephen,6-  Ireland. 
Alice  Anderson  [Alderson],65  Yorkshire,  Margaret 
Cowpland,66  Westmoreland.    Hannah  Dent,67  Yorkshire. 

T734-  Jonn  [Joseph]  Gill,68  Ireland.  John  Burton,6? 
Yorkshore,  William  Backhouse,70  Lancashire. 

1736.  Edward  Tylee,71  near  Bristol.  John  Fother- 
gill,  Third  time. 

1738.  Ruth  Courtney,72  &  Susanna  Hudson,7' 
Ireland.    John  Hunt,*3  London. 

1743.  Edmund  Peckover, 74  Norfolk.  John  Tiaslam,75 
Yorkshire.    Samuel  Hopwood/6  Cornwall. 

1744.  Christopher  Willson,77  Cumberland.  Eleazen 
Sheldon,73  Ireland. 

1747.  Thomas  Gawthrop,79  Westmoreland,  Samuel 
Nottingham.80 

I75I-    Jonah  Thompson,81  Mary  W7eston,82  England. 

1754.  Samuel  Fothergill8^  arrived  the  21th  of  the 
9«>  m°,  1754.  Joshua  Dixon,84  Durham.  Mary  Pics!}7,*5 
Ireland,  and  Catharine  Payton,85  Worcestershire. 

1756.  Thomas  Gawthrop,  Second  time.  Christopher 
Willson,  &  John  Hunt,  Second  time.  James  Tasker,86 
Oxfordshire. 


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1757.  Samuel  Spavold,87  Hartfordshire. 

1758.  William  Rickelt  [Reckitt],63  Lincolnshire. 
Mary  Kirby,s?  Norfolk. 

T759-    John  Storer,5°  England,  Nottingham. 

1760.  George  Mason,91  England.  Susanna  Hatton/2 
Ireland:    Jane  Crossfield,92  England,  all  arrived  p  9th  [of] 

ye  gth  mo(  176C). 

1761.  Robert  Proud,93  John  Stephenson,94  Hannah 
Hams,*  Elizabeth  Wilkinson96  &  Alice  Hail.9?  She  died 
at  Fhiia.    These  arrived  ye  17th  of  10th  m°,  1761. 

1764.  William  Rickiit  [Reckitt],  Second  time, 
Lincolnshire. 

I7^5-    John  Griffith,98  Chelmsford,  Essex. 

1766.    Thomas  Gawthrop,  a  Third  time. 

1768.  Rachel  Wilson,99  from  Kendal,  arrived  3:6th 
of  10th  m°,  1768. 

1770.  Joseph  Oxley,100  Norwich,  Engd,  arrived  at 
New  York  9th  m°,  1770,  and  sailed  for  England  the  Spring, 

1772.    \.  I    ,  ,    .  r<  . 

1770.  Samuel  Neale,101  from  Ireland,  &  Returned 
8th  m°,  1772. 

1773.  Robert  Walker103  from  Yorkshire.  Elizabeth 
Robinson, I03  from  Yorkshire.  Mary  Leaver,104  from 
Nottingham.    Sailed  from  Chester,  Pa.,  the  Ist  of  5th  m°, 

1775.  Thomas  Gawthrop,  a  Eourth  time,  West- 
moreland. 

J7^5-  John  Storer,  Nottingham,  Second  .  time, 
Thomas  Collcy,10*  Sheffield,  these  two  having  large  Gifts. 
John  Towr^erid,xoG  of  London. 

1790,  91  &  92.  Mary  Ridgeway,107  &  Jane  Watson108 
from  Ireland,  visited  most  parts  of  our  American  States 
&  Sailed  for  England,  1792. 

1.793.  Deborah  Darby,109  Colebrookdaie,  &  Rebekah 
Young,110  Shrewsbury,  "from  Shropshire,  England, 
arrived  at  New  York  iotb  m°  8th. 


NOTES, 

(For  names  unaccompanied  with  note?,  sec  Camb.  Jnl.) 
'  J osi ah  Coale  (c.  1672-1G6S)  was  of.  Wmterbourno  in  Gloucestershire, 
a  member  of  a  family  of  good  repute  in  the  district.    lie  had  a  brother, 
Robert,  whose  son,   George  Coale    (c.   1G4S-16S2),  was  a  travelling 


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Minister  (Whiting,  Memoirs,  1715,  pp.  80,  Si).  Josiah  was  convinced  at 
the  time  of  the  soul-stirring  visit  of  Audland  and  Camra  to  the  Bristol 
district  in  1654,  and  before  the  year  had  expired  he  was  in  suffering  for 
the  cause  he  had  espoused  {Cry  of  Blood,  1656,  p.  88).  In  1658,  he 
accompanied  Thomas  Thurston  to  New  England  (of  which  voyage  there  is 
a  narrative  among  MSS.  in  D.)>  and  he  once  more  visited  North  America 
and  the  West  Indies ;  later  he  was  in  Holland.  He  died  in  London. 
Numerous  letters  of  his  are  extant,  written  from  Barbados,  Virginia, 
Maryland,  and  several  English  prisons. 

2  For  Mary  Clark,  see  F.P.T. 

3  Marmaduke  Stevenson  (  -1659)  was  a  Yorkshireman  living 
near  Market  Weighton.  He  was  convinced  in  1655,  and  left  for  the 
New  World  in  1658  (Tuke,  Biog.  Notices,  ii.  89). 

I  loan  Brocksopp  (d.  1681)  was  the  wife  of  Thomas  Brocksopp,  of 
Normanion,  in  the  county  of  York.  Her  visit  to  Barbados  is  recorded  in 
several  MSS.  in  D.    See  also  Bulletin  F.ILS.  of  Phil  a.  ii.  55. 

s  Of  Katherine  Chattam  very  little  is  known  at  present.  Bowden 
states  that  her  home  was  in  London  {Hist.  i.  225,  226,  262,  268). 

Ann  Robinson  and  Oswell  Heritage  accompanied  John  Taylor  to 
Jamaica  in  1662.  He  writes  of  them,  "  They  were  honest  Women,  and  the 
Lord's  Power  was  with  them  to  the  last.  Oswell  Heritage,  the  young 
Virgin,  was  of  a  very  sweet  mild  Spirit,  and  had  a  f.ne  Gift,  if  it  had 
pleased  God  to  have  lengthened  her  Days,  she  might  have  been  of  great 
Service"  {Account  of  Travels,  1710,  p.  19).  A.  Robinson  and  O.  Heritage 
were  imprisoned  in  London  in  1660  (Besse,  Sicff.,  latter  Friend  given  as 
Oswald  Heritage). 

Lydia  Oades  (c.  161 7-1697)  was  also  the  companion  of  John  Taylor 
(see  last  note).  Of  her  he  writes,  "  She  was  a  very  sweet  quiet  spirited 
Woman,  and  the  Lord's  Power  was  with  her,  and  she  had  good  Service  for 
Truth  in  many  Place  and  Countries,  and  lived  to  come  for  Old-England,  to 
her  dear  Husband  and  Children  again."  She  is  mentioned  in  connection 
with  London  in  Besse  and  elsewhere. 

8  Mary  Tomkins  and  Alice  Ambrose  were  companions  both  in  the  Old 
World  and  the  New.  In  1660,  they  suffered  imprisonment  in  Lancashire. 
They  were  in  New  England  in  1662,  in  Long  Island  and  New  York  in 
1663,  and  in  Maryland  and  Virginia  in  the  same  and  the  following  years. 

'  Thomas  Fletcher,  not  identified. 

10  Joan  Vokins  {nee  Bunce)  (d.  1690)  was  the  wife  of  Richard  Vokins 
of  West  Challow,  Berkshire.  "  She  went  through  great  Exercises,  Opposi- 
tion, and  Sufferings  in  her  Convincemcnt  from  her  near  Relations,  but 
.  .  .  she  won  them  to  the  Truth,  and  many  of  thern  were  convinced" 
(Whiting,  Memoirs,  1715,  p.  194).  She  arri  ved  in  New  York  in  1680..  and 
travelled  in  Long  Island,  Rhode  Island,  New  England,  Pennsylvania,  and 
the  West  Indies.  In  1686  she  was  in  Ireland.  Sec  Piety  Promoted) 
Oliver  Sansom. 

I:  Sarah  Clarke  (1669-1714)  was  a  sister  of  Henry  Payton  (note  19)  ; 
she  married  John  Clarke,  of  Tarperley.  in  1695.  Her  husband  haying 
died  in  the  following  year,  she  married  Samuel  Baker.  Of  Dublin,  and 
resided,  in  that  city  the  remainder  of  her  life  {B  coord  of  Friend',  Travelling 
in  Ireland  ;  Lead  healer's  Biog.  Notices. 

II  James  Martin  (1646-1691)  was  a  native  of  East  Acton,  near 
London.  He  was  convinced  in  1672.  He  reached  the  new  Province  in 
1684,  and  remained  several  years,  "  whose  diligent  labours  of  love  were 


12  2 


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well  received  ".  (Smith,  History  of  Friends  in  Pa.,  quoted  by  Bowden, 
His!,  ii.  36).  His  death  took  place  in  Essex  and  his  burial  at  Ratcliff. 
See  Whiting,  Memoirs,  17T5. 

*9  John  Hutton,  not  identified. 

*i  Thomas  Wilson  (c.  1654 -1725)  was  born  in  Cumberland  and  lived 
there  till  about  1694,  when  he  removed  to  Ireland  and  settled  near 
Edenderry.  He  was  a  Minister  for  about  forty-five  years  and  travelled 
extensively  with  James  Dickinson  (see  next  note).  See  his  Journal,  1730 
and  many  other  editions. 

■5  James  Dickinson  (1659- 1741)  was  a  Cumberland  Friend.  His 
appearance  in  the  ministry  was  first  made  in  1678.  Thomas  Wilson  and 
he  were  yoke-fellows  in  Gospel  work.  Dickinson  visited  Ireland  twelve 
times,  America  thrice,  and  Holland  and  Germany  once.  See  his  Journal, 
1745  and  1847. 

'r-  'The  ?,\c  s  Musgrave  was  a  Yorkshireman.  Bowden  states  that  he 
was  in  America  prior  to  1694,  and  also  that  "  in  1.699  he  left  his 
native  land  with  the  intention  of  settling  in  America,  but  died  on  the 
passage  "  (Hist.  ii.  38).  On  this  voyage  sixty  passengers  died  {William 
and  Alice  Ellis,  p.  149). 

17  For  Robert  Barrow  (d.  1697),  see  F.P.T. 

t9  Robert  Wardell  (1635-1696)  lived  at  Sunderland.  He  travelled 
extensively  in  England,  Scotland,  Ireland,  Holland  and  Germany,  and  in 
1694  he  set  sail  for  America  in  the  company  of  Robert  Barrow.  After 
extensive  service  in  the  American  colonies  they  landed  in  Jamaica  on  the 
10th  of  Second  Month,  1696.  Twelve  days  later,  Wardel!  succumbed 
to  the  heat  of  the  climate  and  other  troubles,  and  departed  this  life  at  the 
house  of  John  Dobbin,  of  Biscania,  in  the  parish  of  Elizabeth  (Robson 
MSS.  in  D.). 

1?  Henry  Payton  (1677-1747)  was  an  iron  merchant  of  Dudley.  His 
visit  to  Philadelphia  with  Jonathan  Tyior  and  Sarah  Clarke  is  alluded 
to  with  appreciation  by  women  Friends  of  that  city  in  their  Y.M.  epistle 
(undated,  but  probably  1697)  to  women  Friends  of  London  (Box  Meeting 
MSS.  48,  in  D.).    See  note  11.    See  Kelsall  Diaries,  v.,  MS.  in  D. 

10  Jonathan  Tylor  (c.  1 669-1 717),  of  Calne,  and  later  of  Bradford, 
in.  Wiltshire,  is  described  in  Piety  Promoted  as  "  a  noble  instrument  in  the 
hand  of  God,  who  turned  many  from  darkness  to  light,  and  from  Satan's 
power  to  the  power  of  the  Lord  God,  by  his  living  and  powerful  ministry  ." 

?:  Jacob  Failowheld  (d.  1699)  was  one  of  at  least  ten  Friends  of  an  early 
day  bearing  the  surname  Failowheld.  He  visited  the  West  Indies  in  16S4. 
He  died  at  sea  en  route  from  Barbados  to  Pennsylvania.  See  Bowden, 
Hist.  ii.  38  ;  Minutes  of  London  Y.M.  ii.  345. 

22  William  Ellis  (1658-1709),  and  Alice,  his  wife,  nee  Davy  (d.  1720), 
lived  at  Ayrton,  N.W.  Yorkshire.  Accompanied  by  Aaron  Atkinson, 
W.  Ellis  landed  in  Maryland  early  in  1698.  Women  Friends  of  Phila. 
Y.M.  write  to  their  English  sisters  from  Burlington,  25  vii.  1698: — 

"  There  was  at  this  our  yearly  meetting  many  jiriends  from  diners 
Parts  as  William  Eliss  and  Aron  'Atkinson. '  Elizabeth  Webb  and  Mary 
Rogers  from  old  england  and  from  Barbados  was  our  Anticnt  Jfriend 
Elizabeth  Gamball  ....  and  the  Glory  oft  the  lord  bath  shined 
among  his  Poor  People  in  this  Remote  wilderness  contry  &  he  hath 
gin  en  his  poor  traveling  [travailling]  heritage  the  former  and  the  latte 
Rain  mcderatly  wherby  he  has  Refreshed  them  when  they  were  weary 
holly  and  liueing  Praises  be  giue  to  his  Revered  Name  fore  verm  ore  " 
[Box  Meeting  MSS.  40).  Ellis  returned  home  in  1699.  See  William  and 
A  lice  Ellis. 


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Aaron  Atkinson  (c.  1665-17.40)  was  bora  in  co.  Cumberland,  but 
resided  at  Leeds,  co.  York.  He  was  convinced,  at  the  age  of  twenty- 
nine,  by  the  ministry  of  Christopher  Story  (d.  1720) — Bowden  says 
Thovias  Story  (ii.  39).  He  returned  to  Old  England  early  in  1700.  See 
William  and  Alice  Ellis. 

2S-  Thomas  Chalkley  (1675-17/51)  was  born  in  Southwark,  co.  Surrey, 
and  died  in  the  Island  of  Tortola.  Ke  settled  in  Pennsylvania  soon 
after  his  marriage  in  1699,  and  during  the  intervals  of  his  ocean  voyages 
as  master  of  a  vessel,  he  preached  in  many  parts  of  his  adopted  land. 

=5  Thomas  Turner  (d.  1:714)  belonged  to  Coggeshall  M.M.,  Essex. 
He  crossed  the  Atlantic  in  company  with  William  Ellis,  Aaron  Atkinson 
and  Thomas  Chalkley.  "  He  had  meetings  with  the  Indians  in  their 
places  of  abode,  and  the  Indians  had  great  regard  and  kindness  for  him  " 
(quoted  by  Bowden,  Hist.  ii.  23m.).  He  returned  home  the  same  year, 
but  was  again  in  the  Colonies  in  1704.    See  Loudon  Y.M.  Minutes,  iii.  200. 

26  Mary  Rogers  (d.  1699)  was  the  daughter  of  John  Wheeler,  of 
Witney,  co.  Oxen.  She  married  Joseph  Rogers,  of  East  Markham, 
Notts.,  in  16S5.  (The  Certificate  of  this  marriage  was  in  the  possession 
of  Elizabeth  A.  Follows,  of  King's  Lynn,  1012.  See  Bulletin  of  Friends' 
Hist.  Soc.  of  Phila.  iv.  137,  article  by  M.  Ethel  Crawshaw.)  She  and 
Elizabeth  Webb  sailed  from  Bristol,  and  landed  in  Virginia  in  Twelfth 
Month,  1697,  and  then  travelled  northward.  M.  Rogers  died  of  malignant 
fever  while  passing  between  two  West  Indian  islands.  . 

-7  The  English  home  of  Elizabeth  Webb  (c.  1663- 1727),  wife  of  John 
Webb,  was  the  city  of  Gloucester.  In  her  famous  letter  to  Anthony 
William,  Boehm  (1673-1722),  written  in  1711,  she  thus  describes  the 
upspringingof  her  "  concern  "  for  America  : — 

"  In  the  year  1697,  in  the  sixth  month,  as  I  was  sitting  in  a  meeting 
in  Gloucester  .  .  .  my  spirit  was  as  if  it  had  been  carried  away  to 
America,  and  after  it  returned  my  heart  was  as  if  it  had  been  dissolved  wit  h 
the  love  of  God,  and  it  flowed  over  the  great  Ocean,  and  I  was  constrained 
to  kneel  down  arid  pray  for  the  seed  of  God  in  America,  and  the  concern 
never  went  out  of  my  mind  day  nor  night,  until  I  went  to  travel  there." 

J.  and  E.  Webb  settled  in  Pennsylvania,  c.  1700,  and  in  171 1 
E.  Webb  was  in  England  again  on  religious  service.  In  a  long  biography 
of  Elizabeth  Webb  which  appears  in  The  Friend  (Phila.),  1855,  p.  77,  it 
is  stated  on  the  authority  of  Y.M.  minutes  that  her  husband  was 
Richard  Webb.  There  are  other  points  also  in  this  account  and  that 
found  in  Bowden's  Hist.  (ii.  39,  40,  44),  which  do  not  agree. 

28  Roger  Gill  (c.  1665-1699)  lived  in  London,  where  he  was  con- 
vinced about  16S3,  having  previously  been  a  Baptist.  His  trans- 
atlantic vo3rage  was  undertaken  in  the  company  of  Thomas  Story,  and 
they  landed  in  Twelfth  Month,  1698.  Of  his  death,  of  yellow  fever, 
we  have  a  contemporary  account  among  Box  Meeting  MSS.  : 

"  Being  an  hundred  mile's  Distance  when  he  had  y~  account  of  yc  Deep 
Exercise  we  were  vnder,  &  the  prevailing  of  ye  Distemper  dayly.  had  noe 
Ease  in  his  Spiritt  till  he  Came  Amongst  vs  :  often  Saying  his  Love  in  the 
Lord  was  Such  to  vs,  that  had  he  wing's  he  would  fly  to  Philadelphia. 
[At  the' time  of  the  Y.M.]  Dr  Roger  did  freely  offer  vp  his  Life  to  the 
Lord  in  a  publick  meeting,  if  he  would  Except  of  it  as  a  Sacrifice  for  his 
people.  At  his  Retumo  [from  Burlington]  he  was  taken  with  the 
Distemper  w'h  Seazed  him  violently,  haveing  noe  Intervale  of  Ease  :  nor 
part  about  him  free  from  paine  ....  Some  hour's  before  he  died, 
he  took  his  Leave  of  his  D:  wife  (as  we  peceived  by  his  words)  and  after 
some  time  sweetly  slept  ;  being  on  the  second  day  of  yc  Eight  month." 


FRIENDS  VISITING  AMERICA 


Thomas  Story  (c.  1663-1742),  the  noted  preacher  and  writer,  lawyer 
and  scientist,  one  of  the  comparatively  few  first-rank  Friends  of  the  early 
eighteenth  century. 

s°  Jolm  Salkeld  (1672-1739)  was  the  son  of  Thomas  Salkeld,  of 
Caidbeck,  co.  Cumberland.  See  The  Journal,  iv.  20;  also  Comty's 
Miscellany,  hi.  ;   the  Friend  (Phila.),  iSbo,  p.  372. 

»»  Thomas  Thompson  (1673-1727)  was  the  son  of  the  Friend  of  the 
same  name,  of  Skipsea,  Yorks  (c.  1 631-1704).  The.  younger  Thomas 
resided  in  succession  at  Hitchin  and  Saffron  Walden.  On  his  return  from 
America  he  gave  to  London  Y.M.  of  1705  an  account  of  his  visit,  and 
on  a  subsequent  return  in  1717  he  presented  another  report  (Y.M. 
Miniates,  hi.  195,  v.  255).  There  are  other  MSS.  in  D.  relating  to  his 
missionary  journeys. 

JJ  Josiah  Langdale  (  -1723)  lived  at  Bridlington,  Yorks.  For 
notice  of  his  marriage  and  death,  see  The  Journal,  iv.  19m 

>  Far  j  ohii  Estaiigh  (1676-1742),  see  The  Journal,  iv.  2111. 
5+  John  Richardson  (1667-1753)  was  from  Bridlington — "  a  school  of 
the  prophets.."  as  he  styled  the  town  in  his  Journal,  first  published  1757. 

Bowden  writes,  "  In  the  year  1699  Sarah  Clemens,  from  London, 
whom  John  Richardson  mentioned,  as  one  that '  lived  near  the  Kingdom  ' 
[why  neat  only  ?]  visited  America.  No  particulars  of  her  gospel  mission 
appear  to  be  preserved,  further  than  that  it  was  to  the  '  good  satisfaction  ' 
of  Friends  "  {Hist.  ii.  222),  and  that  she  travelled  with  Elizabeth  Webb. 

i*  For  Samuel  Bownas  (c.  1676-1.753),  see  ThejJournal,  i.  12m. 

-,7  Joseph  Glaister  (1673-1718/19)  was  a  native  of  Cumberland.  H.c 
settled  with  his  family  in  North  Carolina,  c.  1709.  See  Weeks's  Southern 
Quakers,  p.  134. 

There  was  another  Joseph  Glaister  of  Cumberland,  who  travelled 
as  a  hohie  missionary  and  died  in  his  native  county  in  1753. 

3*  "  Mary  Banister  and  Mary  Eilerton  both  valiant  faithful  women, 
endeavouring  to  persuade  to  the  true  and  continual  fear  of  the  Lord,  and 
proclaiming  woe  to  them  that  were  covered  with  a  covering,  but  not  of 
God's  Spirit  "  (quoted  b}'  Bowden,  Hist.  ii.  231). 

Mary  Banister  belonged  to  Devonshire  House  M.M.,  London.  She 
travelled  with  Esther  Palmer  about  a  thousand  miles  in  Maryland  and 
Virginia  in  1705  (The  Journal,  vi.  133). 

to  Mary  Eilerton  (d.  1736)  was  a  York  Friend.  "  She  laboured  faith- 
fully ;  having  many  times  travelled  in  Truth's  Service  through  her  native 
Country  of  England,  visiting  the  Churches  there,  also  Scotland  and 
Ireland,  divers  Parts  of  the  Plantations  in  America,  and  Holland.  She 
departed  this  Life  in  the  city  of  York  in  a  good  old  Age"  {Collection  of 
Testimonies,  1760,  p.  95). 

John  Fothergill  (1676-1744)  was  of  Wenslcydale,  Yorkshire,  a  well- 
known  Minister,  father  of  John  Fothergiil,  M.l).  (1.712-1780),  and  of 
Samuel  Fothergili  (1715-1772). 

<>  William  Annistead  (c.  1675-1 731)  was  a  Minister  of  Settle  M.M.  at 
this  time,  but  later  lie  removed  south  to  London. 

•;5  Samuel  Wilkinson  and  Patrick  Henderson  were  Irishmen  by 
nationality.  "  Samuel  was  a  plain  man,  and  his  companion  was  a  wise 
man.  or  learned/'  quaintly  states  a  MS.  quoted  by  Bowden  (Hist.  ii. 
231),  which  adds  that  Patrick  was  "  large  in  his  testimony,  and  of  singular 
fe^rts  :  may  he  keep  to  the  Root  that  bore  him."  Of  Patrick  again, 
James  Logan  writes,  "  He  is  a  most  extraordinary  young  man  as  ever 
visited  these  parts  "  (quoted  by  Bowden,  Hiti.  ii.  226). 


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43  The  native  county  of  William  Baldwin  was  York,  but  on  his 
marriage  he  settled  in  Lancashire  and,  c.  1714,  he  removed  to  Pennsyl- 
vania. To  London  Y.M.  of  tjt't  he  gave  a  relation  of  his  experiences  in 
America  (Y.M.  Minutes,  iv.  211).    See  The  Friend  (Pkila.),  sgtg,  p.  348. 

44  Bowden  sta  tes  that  William  Armstrong  and  James  Graham  arrived 
in  America  in  1717  {Hist.  ii.  229). 

William  Armstrong  (c.  1663-1721)  belonged  to  one  of  the  Border 
Meetings  of  Cumberland,  having  been  convinced  about  1690.  "  He  was 
not  eloquent  in  speech,  yet  he  was  indeed  fervent  in  spirit  "  {Piety  Pro- 
moted). His  Testimony  states  that  he  had  been  much  weakened  by  hard 
exercises  and  travels  in  America  (MS.  in  D.). 

His  companion,  James  Graham  (1684-1717),  was  the  son  of  William 
Graham,  of  Sykeside,  Cumberland.  He  began  to  preach  at  twenty- 
one,  and  itinerated  in  various  parts  of  his  native  land  before  setting  out 
for  foreign  parts.  "  While  he  waited  for  a  passage,  to  Returne  to  England 
nc  was  taken  Jil  ol  a  Violent  feavor  &  at  Burlington  in  West  Jersey  his 
frids  .  .  .  sent  for  a  Doctor.  But  he  told  ym  they  need  not  for  he 
should  dye  .  .  .  and  then  sd  he  was  glad  he  had  finished  this 
Journey  .  .  .  He  on  y-  3d  6mo  1717  gave  up  his  Spirit  like  a  Lamb." 
(MS.  in  D.) 

45  Benjamin  Holme  (1 683-1749)  was  one  of  the  foremost  Friends  of 
the  second  period  of  Quakerism.  He  was  born  at  Penrith,  "  of  believing 
Parents,"  and  at  the  age  of  fourteen  began  to  preach.  In  1706  he 
removed  to  York.  Prior  to  this  visit  to  America,  he  had  "visited  most 
parts  of  England,  Wales  and  Scotland,  and  also  some  parts  of  Holland  " 
(Bowden,  Hist.  ii.  229).  On  his  return  he  wrote  an  epistle  to  Friends  in 
America,  "  an  exhortation  of  brotherly  love."  He  was  an  indefatigable 
traveller  and  considerable  writer.  His  death  took  place  at  Swansea.  Of 
his  writings,  his  Serious  Call  in  Christian  Love  to  all  People  to  turn  to  the 
Spirit  of  Christ  in  Themselves,  first  printed  in  1725,  passed  through 
many  editions  to  1825,  and  was  translated  into  Dutch,  German,  Latin, 
French  and  Welsh.    Many  of  his  letters  are  extant. 

•"•'J  Bowden  informs  us  that  John  Danson,  Isaac  Hadwen,  Elizabeth 
Rawlinson,  Lydia  Lancaster  and  Rebecca  Turner  all  sailed  in  the  same 
ship  direct  from  London  to  Philadelphia  in  company  with  Thomas 
Chalkley  and  John  Oxley,  who  were  both  returning  from  a  religious 
visit  to  Great  Britain  {Hist.  ii.  234). 

John  Danson's  home  was  Penington,  near  Uiverston.  His  wife's 
name  was  Man/,  and  he  had  several  children  {Henry  Lanipe,  p.  7,7a).  He 
visited  the  island  of  Nantucket  (Hinchman's  Settlers).  A  private  message 
given  Jane  Fenn,  aft.  Hoskens  (1693/4-  )>  when  J.  Danson  was  in  Pa., 
stimulated  her  to  active  interest  in  religious  work  [Life  of  Jane  Hoshcm  ; 
The  Journal,  hi.  104). 

4?  Isaac  Hadwen  (1687-1737)  resided  at  Side,  near  Sedbcrgh,  Yorks. 
In  1 7 14,  he  married  Sarah  Moore,  of  Eldroth,  near  Settle  (see  The 
Journal,  be.  203).  Whilst  on  a  business  journey  in  Pa.,  he  was  taken 
ill  and  died  at  Birmingham  in  Bucks  County  (Robson  MSS.  in  D.).  The 
name  has  descended  through  several  generations  of  Friends. 

*8  John  Oxley  (c.  1682-1743)  was  born  at  Chester,  Pa.,  and  travelled 
widely  through  the  settled  portions  of  the  North  American  continent. 
In  1 71 3,  he  visited  the  island  of  Barbados,  and  two  years  later  he  crossed 
the  Atlantic.  Business  pursuits  took  him  again  to  Barbados,  and  he 
settled  on  the  Island  and  married,  but  paid  several  subsequent  visits  to  the 
mainland.    He  died  in  Philadelphia  {The  Friend  (Piula.),  1837,  p.  r88). 

For  Lydia  Lancaster  (1684-1761),  see  Camb.  Jul.  and  Piety 
Promoted. 


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5°  Elizabeth  Rawlinson  (c.  1670-1750)  was  the  daughter  of  William 
and  Dorothy  Reck.  Both  before  and  a+ler  her  marriage  with  Abraham 
Rawlinson,  of  Lancaster,  she  travelled  much  in  the  ministry.  She  was  a 
Minister  sixty-three  years.    Lydia  Lancaster  was  her  sister  by  marriage. 

5T  Beyond  a  slight  reference  to  Rebecca  Turner  made  by  Bowden,  in 
his  History  {ii.  234..  235),  including  the  statement  that  she  travelled  with 
Elizabeth  Whartnaby  in  Pa.,  and  the  notice  of  her  visit  to  Nantucket  by 
Kinchman  (op.  cii.),  nothing  appears  respecting  this  Friend.  In  John 
Kelsaii's  Diaries,  under  date  2nd  of  3rd  Month,  171 1,  we  are  told  that 
"  Kcbeccah  Turner  from  Hastrop  near  Burlington,  Yorkshire,"  visite  d 
Wales  and  the  West  of  England,  and  a  precis  of  her  addresses  is  given. 
Perchance  this  was  the  same  Friend  as  the  above. 

J-  John.  Appleton  (  -1741)  lived  at  Bridlington,  S.E.  Yorks, 
according  to  several  accounts  (Kelsaii  Diaries  ;  Robson  MSS.  ;  and 
MS.  Testimony).  Tf  the  statement  in  the  text  is  correct,  he  must  have 
removed  over  the  county-border  prior  to  his  transatlantic  visit.  There 
is  a  lively  record  of  this  visit  preserved  on  the  pages  of  London  Y.M. 
Minutes. 

5-;  The.  travels  in  America  of  John  Fothergill  and  Lawrence  King 
(  -1724)  are  recorded  in  the  Y.M.  Minutes  of  the  period.  L.  King 
?  travelled  muck  in  the  work  of  the  ministry  in  Great  Britain  and  Ireland 
between  1607  and  1720"  (William  and  Alice  Ellis,  pp.  189,  etc.).  His 
home  was  Salterforth,  N.W.  Yorks. 

54  The  following  entries  in  the  Diaries'of  John  Kelsaii  may  refer  to  the 
same  Margaret  Paine  : — '*'  5th  of  8th  Month,  1709,  Anne  Humphreys 
(widdow)  and  Margaret  Paine,  both  of  Walden  in  Essex,  were  at  our  Meet- 
ing " — "  14th  of  8th  Month,  171 1,  Margaret  Paine '(see  page  97),  now 
from  Dunstable,  and  Mary  Trueinan  from  Nottingham  were  at  our 
meeting.  Margaret  was  concerned  to  shew  the  goodness  of  the  Lord  to 
mankind  in  three,  respects,  first  by  sending  forth  his  messengers  to  warn 
you,  secondly  by  the  privelege  of  the  holy  Exhortations,  counsels  etc. 
in  the  Scriptures,  and  lastly  by  the  inspeakings  of  His  Holy  Spirit  etc." 
[These  Diaries  contain  frequent  notes  on  sermons  by  visiting  Friends.] 

55  For  Benjamin  Kidd  (c.  i69?-i75i),  see  The  Journal,  v. 

s*  Abigail  Bowles  (c.  1684-1752)  lived  ,  at  Woodhouse,  Ireland,  prior 
to  her  marriage  with  Samuel  Watson,  of  Kilconner,  co.  Carlow  (Diary  of 
Mary  Wcsic;;,  p.  3  MS.  in  D.).  She  travelled  seventeen  hundred  miles 
in  America  with  Jane  Hoskens. 

5'  William  Piggott's  travels  in  America  are  described  in  the  minutes 
of  London  Y.M.  under  date  1728.    He  was  a  London  Friend. 

53  Joshua  Fielding  reported  to  London  Y.M.  in  1729,  that  during  this 
visit  "he  had  travelled  twenty-one  thousand  miles,  to  four  hundred  and 
eighty  meetings,  in  nine  hundred  and  fifty-two  days.  In  passing  to  South 
Carolina,  be  journeyed  for  live  hundred  miles  through  the  forests,  with  only 
J*  pocket  compass  to  direct  him  "  (Bowden,  Hist.  ii.  237,  quoting  Bownas). 
He  was  a  London  Friend. 

Of  Joseph.  Taylor  no  further  information  is  at  present  available. 
',3  Rowland  Wilson  was  a  Westmorland  Friend  (Kelsaii  Diaries). 
f:  The  name  of  Paul  Johnson,  of  Dublin,  occurs  frequently  in  the 
Record,  of  Friends  Travelling  in  Ireland,  between  the  years  1709  and  1738. 

*-  For  Henry  Frankland  (  -1739)  and  his  travels,  see  The 
Journal,  vii. 


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6J  Mungo  Bewley  (1677-1747)  was  youngest  son  of  Thomas  and 
Margaret  (Mark)  Bewley,  of  Woodhall,"  Cumberland.  He  settled  at 
Eden  lerry,  in  King's  Co.,  in  1700,  and  married,  six  years  later,  Mary, 
daughter  of  Nicholas  and  Sarah  (Jackson)  Gribbell,  of  Limerick.  "  AU 
the  BewIeyS  at  present  resident  in  Ireland  are  descendants  of  Mungo 
Bewley"  (The  Beivleys of  Cumberland,  1902).  His  wife  died  during  his 
visit  to  America  (Leadbeater's  Biog.  Notices). 

Cj>  Samuel  Stephens  (c.  1703-174  7)  lived  at  Cooladine  within  Wexford 
M.M. 

6>  Alice  Alderson  (c.  167S-1766)  was  of  Ravenstonedale,  Yorkshire, 
wife  of  Ralph  Alderson,  also  a  Minister.  Sedbergh  M.M.  issued  a  long 
Testimony  to  her  helpful  service. 

66  The  home  of  Margaret  Copeland  or  Coupland  (c.  1683-1759)  was 
in  the  town  of  Kendal. 

Hannah  Dent  lived  near  Richmond,  Yorks.  In  company  with 
Tabitha  Hornor,  of  Leeds,  she  visited  Wales,  in  1724,  as  noted  in  John 
KelsaU's  Diaries — "  they  were  brave  sensible  women  deep  in  the  mysteries 
of  the  Kingdom  and  very  notable  in  Deliverance." 

6S  Joseph  Gill  (1674-1741)  was  the  son  of  William  and  Margaret  Gill, 
of  Cumberland.  He  settled  in  Dublin  in  1702,  soon  after  his  marriage  with 
Isabel  Robinson,  of  Carlisle,  the  first  of  his  three  wives  (Leadbeater's 
Biog.  Notices). 

69  John  Burton  (1682-1769)  was  of  Dent,  N.W.  Yorks.  This  little  out- 
of-the-way  town  was  his  home  throughout  his  long  life.  "  Tho'  he  had 
but  little  humane  Learning,  yet  he  was  often  led  forth  not  only  in  a  living 
powerful  Testimony  but  in  matter  exceeding  copious  and  pertinent," 
says  the  Testimony  prepared  by  his  friends  (MS.  in  D.). 

*°  William  Backhouse  (1695-1761)  was  son  of  James  Backhouse,  of 
Yealand,  who  died  a  prisoner  in  Lancaster  Castle,  161)7,  anc*  ms  wife, 
Jennet  Godsalve.  In  1720,  he  married  Agnes  Atkinson  (a  copy  of  the 
marriage  certificate  is  in  D.). 

7t  Bowden  gives  the  name  "  John  Tylee,  from  near  Bristol  "  (ii.  41  ;. 
"  Edward  Tyler  of  Bristol  "  appears  in  the  list  of  visitors  to  Nantucket 
in  1735,  and  in  the  Record  of  Friends  Travelling  in  Ireland,  we  read  : — 
"  173S,  10  mo.  14.    Edward  Tylee  from  Bristol  landed  here  [Cork]  this 

V  Susanna  Hudson  (aft.  Hatton  and  Light  foot)  was  born  at  Grange, 
co.  Antrim,  in  1720.  When  eighteen  years  old,  she  accompanied  her 
mistress,  Ruth  Courtney,  to  America,  and  also  travelled  with  her  in 
freland  and  England.  In  1742  she  married  Joseph  Hatton,  and  fourteen 
years  later  she  removed  with  her  husband  and  family  to  Water  fore. 
Joseph  Hatton  died  in  1759,  and  in  the  following  year  she  crossed  the 
Atlantic  again.  Here  she  met  Thomas  Lightfool,  who,  shortly  following 
her  to  Ireland,  proposed  marriage.  They  were  united  in  1763,  and 
in  the  next  year  they  emigrated  to  Perlnsylvania.  Her  death  took 
place  in  1781.  (Penna.  Memorials  ;  Bowden,  Hist:  ii.  241,  290,  3^7 ; 
Leadbeater,  Biog.  Notices  ;  Memoirs  of  Samuel  Fothergill  ;  Record  of 
Friends  Travelling  in  Ireland.) 

73  John  Hunt  was  quite  young  at  this  time,  but  had  previously  minis* 
tered  to  Friends  and  others  in  England  and  Ireland.  There  is  a  record  af 
his  return  to  Europe  under  date  1740,  4  mo.  4,  in  company  with  Michael 
f  jghtfoot.  in  the  MS.  Record  previously  quoted.  In  1756,  John  Hunt  and 
Christopher  Wilson  were  sent  out  as  a  deputation  to  Friends  in  America 
on  the  subject  of  the  alleged  mis-management  of  the  Indians.    (For  a  full 


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account  of  the  difficulties  of  Friends  at  this  period,  see  Bowden,  Hist.  ii. 
chap,  xi.)  Hurt  returned  agaia  to  the  Colonies  and  settled  in  Phila- 
c>.  I  phia .  Of  the  troubles  consequent  upon  the  war  of  American  independ- 
ence Friends  bore  a  heavy  shave;  twenty-two  Friends  were  banished  to 
Virginia  in  1777,  and  among  them  was  John  Hunt,  who  died  in  exile  at 
Winchester  in  177S  {Exiles  in  Virginia,  184S  ;  Bowden,  ii.  241,  280,  316, 
3*7-  3-°.  325-328). 

M  For  Edmund  Peckover  (1695-1767),  see  The  Journal,  i.  ii.  iv. 

?s  For  John  Haslam  (c.  16S9-1773),  see  The  Journal,  i.  iv. 

~°  For  Samuel  Ilopwood  (1674-1760),  see  The  Journal,  iv. 

Christopher  Wilson  (1704-1 761)  was  a  son  of  John  Wilson,  of  Grey- 
sou  then,  Cumberland.  His  labours  on  both  sides  of  the  Atlantic  were 
numerous  and  helpful,  but  he  will  be  mainly  remembered  by  the  MS.  he 
icii  behind  nim,  dated  30th  6moV,  1759,  deploring  the  mistake  he  made 
in  entering  into  trading  speculations  which  resulted  in  loss  both  outward 
aad  spiritual.  He  writes,  "  I  had  a  sufficiency  from  my  father,  with 
prudent  industry,  to  live  comfortably  upon  ;  yet  I  have  been,  by  little  and 
little,  drawn  into  trading  to  foreign  parts  ;  and  the  Lord,  I  have  seen, 
blasted  all  my  endeavours.  Yet  in  hopes  to  regain  what  I  had  lost,  I 
ventured  out  again,  with  a  prospect,  as  I  thought,  to  regain  it,  but  still 
havebeen  banded  in  all  my  designs,  until  I  am  distressed  in  body  and  mind ; 
and  wish  it.  may  be  a  warning  to  all  Friends  for  the  future,  not  to 
launch  out  in  such  a  manner.  Food  and  raiment  is  enough  .... 
to  live  in  a  cottage,  and  have  an  easy  mind,  eat  bread  and  drink  water,  is 
much  preferable  to  large  dealings  in  trade  ..."  (printed  in 
The  Friend  (Phil a.),  1842,  p.  308,  and  frequently  found  in  MS.). 

's  Tn  1739,  Eleazar  Sheldon  is  described  in  the  Record  before  cited 
as  "  a  young  man  from  Dublin,  sou  to  Eleazar  Sheldon  deceas'd  .  .  . 
whose  service  was  acceptable  to  Friends." 

In  1745,  Hopwood,  Haslam,  Peckover,  Wilson  and  Sheldon  gave  to 
London  Y..M.  a  report:  of  their  visit  to  Friends  in  America  (see  The 
Journal,  i.). 

Thomas  Gawthrop  (Gawthorp)  (1709-1781)  was  born  at  Skipton, 
Yorks,  and  was,  in  early  life,  for  hve  years,  a  soldier.  Soon  after  his 
conVinbeiitent,  viz.  in  1735,  he  married  Isabel  Crosfield  of  Lowpark, 
near  Kendal,  and  settled  in  the  village  of  Gatebeck.  "  They  had  four  sons 
and  two  daughters  ;  the  two  youngest  sons  emigrated  to  America " 
{F.O.E.  1903,  where  there  is  a  full  account  of  this  Friend,  by  Henry 
Gawthrop,  of  Pa.).    Several  of  his  letters  are  preserved  in  D. 

?'J  Samuel  Nottingham  (1716-1787)  was  born  at  Wellingborough  in 
Northamptonshire.  Some  time  after  his  return  from  the  western 
world,  he  crossed  again  and  resided  first  on  the  island  of  Tortola,  and 
later  on  Long  Island.  In  1779,  he  quitted  America,  and  after  a  some- 
what extensive  visit  to  Friends  in  Ireland,  settled  in  the  city  of  Bristol 
fOriginal  certificate  of  removal  in  D.).  He  died  in  his  native  town, 
where  he  had  shortly  before  taken  a  place  of  residence.  A  letter  from 
Samuel  and  Mary  Nottingham,  late  of  Long  Look,  Tortola,  giving  advice 
to  theft  liberated  slaves  on  that  island,  is  printed  in  Gurney's  West  thaits 
and  Truman's  West  Indies. 

*'  Jonah  Thompson  (1732-1780)  was  born  near  Penrith,  in  Cumber; 
hmd.  and  was  the  grandson  of  Thomas  Lawson,  the  noted  Quaker 
oattiralist.  He  was  engaged  as  a  schoolmaster  in  Westmorland  and  also 
aft  Yatlon.  near  Bristol,  after  which  the  well-known  school  at  Nether 
Cpmpton  m  Dorset  was  established  by  him  and  carried  on  by  his  son, 


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Thomas.  He  left  at  home  a  wife,  six  little  children  and  a  school,  when 
he  sailed  for  America.  For  an  article  on '' The  Thompsons  of  Conrpton,'' 
see  F.Q.E.  1878. 

Bowden  prints,  in  error,  Jcsiah  Thompson  (Hist  ii.  244). 

N  For  Mary  Weston  (1.712-1766),  form.  Pace,  aft.  Waving,  and  her 
American  Journal,  see  The  Journal,  iv. ;  also  Eliot  Papers,  1894,  ii.  79. 

*3  Samuel  Fothergill  (1715-1772),  the  noted  preacher  and  letter- 
writer,  son  of  John  Fothergill  (1676-1744,  see  ante)  and  brother  of  Dr. 
John  Fothergill  (1712-17S0). 

Joshua  Dixon  (1702-1782),  son  of  Christopher  and  Elizabeth 
(Grainger)  Dixon,  of  Raby,  co.  Durham,  married  Hannah  Parking 
(c.  1696-1776),  0/  co.  Durham,  in  1729.  He  visited  Ireland  in  1751/ 2, 
"  an  able  &  powerful!  Minister  of  the  Gospel  sound  in  doctrine,  and  of  a 
baptizing  ministry,  sharp  in  warning  to  the  stubborn  &  rebellioi;s,  but  a 
son  of  consolation  to  the  Mourners  "  (Record  of  Friends  Travelling 
ir>  Ireland).  His  return  from  the  western  world  was  recorded  by  Raby 
M.M.  as  follows,  "  Joshua  Dixon  has  this  day  [31  viii.  1756]  delivered  in 
his  Certificate  we  sent  with  him  when  he  was  in  Amaricay,  and  hath  given 
us  account  of  his  labour  ?„nd  Service  in  those  countryes  &  Provinces 
w:h  is  to  our  satisfaction  ;  he  hath  brought  also  several  certificates  from 
their-friends  of  their  unity  with  him  in  his  concern  "  ^Longstaff,  Lcuigstoffs, 
19°7,  P-      see  also  pp.  xliv.,  xlviii.,  ped.  16). 

8*  For  Catharine  Payton,  aft.  Phillips,  and  Mary  Peisiey,  aft.  Neale, 
see  The  Jouknal,  ii.  For  a  list  of  the  sea-stores  for  the  use  of  these 
two  travellers  and  S.  Fothergill  on  their  return  voyage,  6mo.  1756,  see 
ibid. 

80  The  Berks  and  Oxon  Registers  record  the  marriage,  in  174S,  of 
James  Tasker,  of  Shenington,  near  Banbury,  cordwainer,  with  Mercy 
Hawkins,  of  War.borough,  also  the  births  of  several  of  their  children  and 
the  burial  of  one  child  at  Shutford. 

?7  Samuel  Spavold  (c.  1708-1795)  was  apprenticed  to  a  carpenter,  and 
when  out  of  his  time,  he  went  to  London  to  live.  Later  he  removed  to 
Folkestone,  and  finally,  in  1750,  to  Hitchin.  Lawson  Thompson,  of 
Hitehin,  possesses  an  oak  book-case  made  by  S.  Spavold.  He  was  four 
times  in  Ireland  and  in  Wales,  and  once  in  Scotland,  on  Truth's  account 
(The  Friend  (Phila.),  1903,  p.  29).  There  are  a  number  of  MSS.  in  D. 
relating  to  him — his  "  prophecy  "  in  1749  and  "  vision  "  in  17.54.  etc. 

William  Reckitt  (1706-1769)  lived  at  Wainfieet,  Lines.,  and  worked 
as  a  weaver.  He  set  out  for  America  in  1.756,  and  was  taken  prisoner  to 
France,  where  he  was  detained  about  six  months.  After  a  short  stay  at 
home  he  again  set  forth,  and  safely  reached  the  other  shore.  There  is  a 
full  account  of  his  travels  and  trials  in  his  Life,  edited  by  Thomas 
VVagstaff,  printed  separately  and  reprinted  in  vol.  ix.  of  Frfen&s'  Library, 
(Phila.),  1845. 

•?  Mary  Kirby  (1:  09-1779)  was  the  daughter  of  John  and  Mary 
Ransome,  of  Southrepps,  on  the  Norfolk  coast.  In  her  twenty-second 
year  she  married  Samuel  Kirby,  who  died  in  17.37,  leaving  her  with 
several,  children.  Between  1739  and  1769,  she  travelled  much  in  the 
ministry.    MS.  Testimony  in  D. 

90  John  Store*  (1725/6-1795)  was  "  educated  in  the  way  of  the 
National  Church,  but  was  much  addicted  in  his  youth  to  follow  the  vain 
and  pernicious  customs  of  the  world.  "  (MS.  Testimony  in  D.).  He 
became  a  Friend  about  1748  and  a  Minister  some  four  years  later.  His 
death  took  place  at  Joseph  Burtt's  at  Welbonrne  in  Lincolnshire,  m 
returning  from  Y.M. 


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9r  Bowden  state.-,  that  George  Mason  was  "  of  Yorkshire  " 
[HiSt.  ii  .  2$o). 

9J  Jane  Crosfield  (1713-17S4)  was  the  daughter  of  James  Rowlandson, 
of  Frith  Hall,  N.  Lanes.  In  1740,  she  mairied  George  Crosfield,  of  Low 
Park,  near  Preston  Patrick,  in  Westmorland.  Theie  is  a  full,  account 
extant  of  her  visit  to  America.  George  Mason,  Susanna  Hatton,  and  she 
sailed  on  the  23rd  of  ymo.  1760,  in  the  ship  Philadelphia  Packet,  and  they 
arrived  in  Philadelphia  on  the  nth  of  qmo.  ^63  was  paid  by  the  Meeting 
for  Sufferings  for  their  passage.    See  F.Q.E.  1903. 

«  Robert  Proud  and  John  Stephenson  (see  next  note),  both  of 
Yorkshire,  travelled  together  in  Ireland  also,  in  1756,  according  to  the 
Record. 

94  John  Stephenson  (1718-1798)  was  [born  at  Llirbymoorside,  Yorks. 
His  wife  was  Rebecca  Snowden,  and  his  home  Stockton-on-Tees. 

95  Hannah  Harris  was  of  Cumberland.  She  travelled  with  Alice 
Hall  in  America,  and  is  also  mentioned  as  a  companion  of  Elizabeth 
Wilkinson  in  that  country  (MS.  Testimony  to  E.W.  in  D.)  ;  Journal  of 
Joseph  Oxley,  1837,  p.  285. 

')'■■  Elizabeth  Wilkinson  (1712-1771)  was  the  wife  of  Jonathan  WiDiin- 
son,  of  Cockermouth,  Cumberland.  "  She  was  born  at  Use-bridge-end  in 
Isell  Old  Park  in  the  county  of  Cumberland  "  (MS.  Testimony  in  D.).  In 
early  Hie  she  resided  in  Ireland  and  later  in  London.  "  She  was  a  loving 
Wife  &  tender  Mother,  a  helpful  &  kind  Neighbour  &  an  affectionate 
Friend  "  (ibid.). 

97  "  Alice  Hall,  wife  of  Isaac  Hall,  of  Little  Broughton,  in  Cumber- 
land, was  bora  the  30th  of  the  Eleventh  Month,  1708,  at  Blackhouse,  in 
Allendale,  in  Northumberland,  and  daughter  of  John  and  Isabella 
Featherstone,  religious  Friends "  (Piety  Promoted).  Her  death  took 
place  at.  Isaac  Zane's  in  Philadelphia,  in  1762,  far  from  husband  and 
children.  Her  son,  John  Hall  (1744-1810),  also  travelled  extensively  as  a 
Minister.    See  The  Feather  stones  and  Halls,  by  Margaret  Irwin,  1890. 

9s  The  original  home  of  John  Griffith  (1713-1776)  was  in  Radnorshire, 
South  Wales.  In  1726,  he  emigrated  to  the  New  World,  and  later,  on  his 
marriage,  he  settled  at  Darby,  Pa.  After  wide  journeyings  in  his  adopted 
country,  he  set  sail  for  Britain,  but  was  captured  by  a  privateer  and  carried 
into  Spain  and  then  France.  He  reached  London  in  time  for  the  Y.M. 
of  174S,  a.nd  returned  to  America  in  1750.  Later  in  this  year  Griffith  was 
east-bound  again,  and  in  the  First  Month  following  he  married  (as  his 
second  wife)  Frances  Wyatt,  at  Chelmsford,  co.  Essex,  where  he  settled. 
He  was  one  of  the  prime  movers  in  the  proposal  to  send  down  committees 
to  visit  the  whole  of  the  English  Meetings,  which  action  resulted  in  a  great 
"  revival  of  the  discipline  "  in  1760,  etc.  He  left  a  very  lull  auto- 
biographical record,  printed  in  his  Life,  1779  and  later. 

Rachel  Wilson  (c.  1721-1775)  was  the  daughter  of  John  and 
Deborah  Wilson  of  Kendal.  She  was  called  to  the  ministry  in  her 
eighteenth  year,  and  about  three  years  afterwards  she  married  Tsa-c 
Wilson.   Her  death  took  place  in.  London  at  the  house  of  Richard  Chester. 

rco  Joseph  Oxley  (1715-1757)  was  born  at  Brigg,  Lines.,  son  of  John 
and  Ann  (Peckover)  Oxley.  An  orphan  at  an  early  age,  he  came  under  jfehc 
especial  care  of  his  uncle,  Edmund  Peckover,  and  was  sent  to  Gilbert 
Thompson's  school  at  Sankey.  Lanes,  being,  later,  bound  apprentice  to 
Robert  Henderson,  a  Quaker  clock-maker,  of  Scarborough.  His  thought 
were  definitely  turned  to  religion  through  the  preaching  of  Geo:.-*; 
Whiteueld.     In  1744  Oxley  married  Elizabeth  Perm,  of  Norwich,  and 


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settled  in  that  city.  The  certificate  for  service  in  America  from  the 
London  Y.M.  of  Ministers  and  Elders,  1770,  is  given  in  full,  with  the 
names  of  Friends  signing  it,  in  his  Journal,  published  in  1S37,  p.  306.  He 
returned  to  wife  and  family  in  1772,  having  travelled  about  13,755  miles. 

101  Samuel  Neale  (1 729-1 792)  was  born  in  Dublin,  being  a  son  of 
Thomas  and  Martha  Neale.  His  mother  died  when  he  was  six,  and  soon 
afterwards  his  father  emigrated  to  America,  leaving  his  family  under 
the  care,  of  relatives.  In  1756,  he  married  Mar)'-  Peisiey,  at  which  time 
he  was  resident  at  Rathangan,  co.  Ki.1da.re.  He  was  a  diligent  visitor 
of  the  Churches  in  the  three  kingdoms. 

t<>2  The  home  of  Robert  Walker  (c.  171 7-1 785)  was  Gildersome,  near 
Leeds.  "  He  was  given  to  see  the  approaching  troubles  of  the  revolution," 
and  he  "  delivered  many  faithful  warnings,  suitable  cautions,  and 
instructions"  (Bowden,  Hist.  ii.  293  ;  Piety  Promoted).  He  died  at  the 
house  of  Thomas  Phillips,  at  Tottenham,  Middlesex. 

10'-  Elizabeth  Robinson  (1 729-1804)  was  the  daughter  of  John  and 
Mary  Hoyle,  of  Burnley,  Lanes.  "  After  deep  exercise  of  mind,  she- 
came  forth  in  a  public  testimony  about  the  23rd  year  of  her  age,  in  which 
she  has  signified  that  she  thought  herself  one  of  the  least  so  engaged  " 
(Testimony  in  D.).  Tn  1754,  E.  Hoyle  married  Joshua  Robinson,  of 
Coiinterside  in  Wensleydale,  Yorks,  and  in  1778  she  married  George 
Gibson  and  became  a  member  of  Thaxted  M.M.  in  Essex.  Bowden 
states  that  "  it  was  from  the  ministry  of  Elizabeth  Robinson  that 
Thomas  Scattergood  [1748-1S14]  dates  his  awakening." 

10<  Mary  Leaver  (1720-1789)  was  the  wife  of  John  Leaver  of  Notting- 
ham. Pier  three  adult  daughters  died  shortly  after  her  return  from 
America  in  1775. 

A  poem,  signed  "  Fidelia,"  and  dated  Philadelphia,  25th  of  .;mo. 
t 775,  is  addressed  "To  our  Valued  Friends  Eliz  :   Robinson  and  Mary 
Leaver  on  their  return  home  from  America,"  of  which  this  is  the  last  verse  : 
"  Oh  may  this  guardian  power  divine 
In  peace  your  steps  sustain, 
Those  gifts  your  duty  did  resign 

His  love  restore  again."  Row  MSS.  in  D. 

Robert  Walker  returned  in  the  same  vessel  as  E.  Robinson  and 
M.  Leaver. 

105  Thomas  Colley  (1742-1812)  "  was  born  at  Smeaton,  near  Ponte- 
fract,  and  educated  in  the  principles  of  the  Church  of  England,  and  when 
about  eleven  years  of  age,  came  to  reside  at  Sheffield  as  an  Apprentice  " 
(MS.  Testimony  in  D.).  He  was  married  in  1764,;  his  wife,  Jane,  and  he 
were  received  into  membership  in  1768  ;  in  1768  he  first  appeared  in  the 
ministry,  and  two  years  later  commenced  travelling  therein.  There  is 
a  MS.  account  in  D.  of  his  travels  in  the  West  Indies  with  Philip  Madin, 
of  Sheffield,  in  1779.  Jane  Colley  died  in  1S19  --"  for  twenty-four  years 
before  her  decease  she  was  mostly  confined  to  her  room  by  a  painful 
indisposition  "  (MS.  Testimony  in  D.). 

■  Thomas  Colley's  addresses— Tender  Salutation  and  An  Apology  for 
Silent  Waiting — passed  through  some  twelve  editions  between  179s  and 
1824. 

106  John  Tovvnsend  (1725-1801)  was  a  pewterer  by  trade,  a  member 
of  an  old  Berkshire  family.  His  wearing  a  "  Red-spotted  Handkerckk-f  " 
was  a  great  burden  to  some  of  his  American  brethren.  See  a  memoir  of 
him  in  PccclleiUons  of  S pita1  fields,  by  Theodore  Comptor.,  E908  ,  also 
The  British  Friend,  187.;.  Thomas  Colley  aud  he  travelled  together, 
Thomas  being  a  t  in  man  and  John  very  short  in  stature. 


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Mary  Ridgway  (1728-1804)  was  the  daughter  of  Joseph  and 
Mary  Spaikes  of  Exeter.  In  1753,  in  company  with  Sarah  Splatt,  she 
visited  Ireland,  and  in  the  following  year  married  Joshua  Ridgway,  of 
Bailicarrol,  Qafeen's  Co.  "  During  his  life,  she  had  not  much  public 
service,  home  seeming  to  be  her  proper  allotment  ;  but  after  his  decease 
she  was  diligent  in  her  ministerial  office"  (Leadbeater's  Bing. 
Notices,  1823,  p.  33S). 

IoS  Jane  Watson  was  the  companion  of  Mary  Ridgway  on  religious 
visits  in  the  Old  as  well  as  the  New  World. 

This  long  and  interesting  list  of  transatlantic  Gospel  messengers 
closes  with  a  couple  of  remarkable  women  to  Whose  valuable  services 
history  has  not  as  yet  done  justice,  nor  can  justice  be  done  here  in  a  brief 
note. 

Deborah  Darby  (1754-rSto)  was  the  daughter  of  John  and  Hannah 
Barnard,  .  "  tTppertiiorpe,  near  Sheffield.  In  1776,  she  married  Samuel, 
son  of  Abraham  and  Abiah  Darby  of  Coalbrookdale  (see  The  Journal, 
x.  79).  and  shortly  afterwards  she  began  to  engage  in  public  ministry 
of  the  Gospel.  Her  visit  to  the  States  will  ever  be  memorable  in  con- 
nection with  the  conversion  and  convincement  of  Stephen  Grellet. 

I1C  Rebecca  Young,  aft.  Byrd  (1758-1S34),  was  the  daughter  of  John 
and  Jane  Young,  of  Shrewsbury.  "  She  was  first  engaged  in  the  ministry 
in  1784  .  .  .  and  from  that  time  to  the  year  1S10,  Deborah  Darby 
and  she  were,  with  little  intermission,  employed  visiting  most  parts  of. 
Great  Britain  and  Ireland  "  (Corder's  Memorials).  In  1800,  she  married 
William  Byrd  of  Marnhull,  Dorset. 

The  aforegoing  list  records  165  visits  to  America  during  the  137  years, 
of  which  47  were  made  by  women,  and  118  by  men  Ministers. 


The  MS.  Record  of  Friends  Travelling  in  Ireland,  frequently  mentioned 
in  above  notes,  is  now  being  printed  and  will  appear  in  later 'pages  of  this 
volume  of  The  Journal. 


The  ponderous  volumes  of  our  forefathers  show  us  how  little  they 
were  disposed  to  dwell  on  the  by-products  of  the  central  truths  they  pro- 
claimed against  all  hindering  things.  The  spiritual  realities  of  the  new 
life  wrere  everything  to  them.  They  had  no  compassion  for  degenerate 
descendants  who  long  that  their  journals — those  at  least  of  acute  observers 
— might  have  strayed  more  frequently  beyond  the  precincts  of  the 
blessed  meetings  that  were  their  power  houses  of  strength,  and  so  have 
brought  minor  matters  to  view  in  the  conditions  around  them. 

From  Social  Service  :  Its  Place  in  the  Society  of  Friends,  by  Joshua 
Rowntree,  Swarthrnore  Lecture  for  1913,  p.  17. 


All  desire  to  rejoice  with  Him,  but  few  will  suffer  with  Him,  or  for 
Him.  Many  are  the  companions  of  lu's  table ;  not  many  of  his  abstinence. 
The  loaves  the-,  follow,  but  the  cup  of  his  agony  they  leave  ;  it  is  too 
bitter,  they  like  not  to  drink  thereof. 

William  Plnn,  Ko  Cross,  No  Groan,  pt.  i.  chap,  xii.  sect.  xi. 


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LINCOLNSHIRE 
Arranged  in  Wapentakes 

Continued-  from  page  29 


Man  ley  Wapentake 

Aulkborougk.  J 662.  Aug.  25.  Paul  Benington, 
John  Dent1 — quakers  for  refuseing  to  come  to  Church. 

1662.  29  October.  Paull  Bennington  &  his  wife, 
John  Dent — for  not  corning  to  Church. 

1662.  29  Oct.  Rob*  Walker — a  Quaker  for  non- 
payment of  assessment  to  the  Churchwarden  for  the 
Church  ouse — the  sume  of  one  shilling  foure  pence. 

likewise  we  psent  James  Trayson,  another  of  the  said 
sect  for  his  denyall  of  his  duty  thereto  being  2s. 

1663.  April  30.  Paul  Bennington  &  Joan  his  wife, 
John  Dent — for  absenting  from  the  Church,  suspended. 

1663.  Oct.  15.  John  Dent,  Paull  Bennington  & 
Joan  his  wife — doe  stand  excoicate. 

John  Wattam,  Rob1-  Sutton — for  working  &  con- 
versing with  Paull  Bennington  &  John  Dent,  excom- 
municate. 

1664.  8th  die  Aug**.  Paule  Beningham  &  joane 
his  wife,  John  Dent — for  standing  excoicate. 

1664.  Nov.  9.  Paul  Benington  &  Joan  his  wife — 
for  standing  excoicate  with  Inhibition. 

Barton  sup  Strather  (Stather).  1662.  Aug.  22 
&  25.  John  Johnson  of  Thealby  within  the  pish  of 
"Burton-upon- Stather,  &  Elizabeth  his  wife,  &  William 
Robinson  his  man — for  refusing  to  come  to  Church. 

John  Wressell  of  the  same  Towne  &  Anne  his  wife — 
for  the  like. 

Richard  Wressell  junr  of  ye  same  &  Anne  his  wife — 
for  the  like. 

1  These  two  Friends  had  previously  been  fitted  75.  each. 

Vol.  x. — 117.  135 


1 34  EP I  SCOP  A  L  VI  SI  TA  TIONS 

John  Johnson  of  Thealby — for  one  Child  being  not 
legally  buried. 

John  Wressie  of  the  same — for  having  three  Children 
mibaptised  &  two  not  legally  buried. 

Richard.  Wressell  Junr  of  the  same  towne — for 
having  two  children  unbaptised. 

1662.  Oct.  29.  John  Johnson  &  his  wife,  John 
Wressell  &  Anne  his  wife,  Rich.  Wressell  &  Anna  his 
wife — for  not  coining  to  Church. 

Elizabeth  Johnson — for  not  giveing  thanks  to  God 
for  her  debVance  after  childt earing  comonly  called 
CJrarching; 

John  Johnson — for  not  baptising  his  child — All 
prsented  before. 

1663.  April  30.  John  Johnson  &  Elizabeth  his 
wife,  Richard  Wressie  junr  &  Anna  his  wife,  John 
Wresle  &  Anne  his  wife — for  Standing  excoicate  with 
Inhibition. 

1663.  Oct.  15.  John  Johnson  &  Elisabeth  his  wife, 
John  Wressie  &  Anne  his  wife,  Richard  Wressie  &  Anne 
his  wife — for  standing  excoicate. 

1664.  Nov.  7.    ut  supra. 

1684.  Sep.  7.  (Burton  super  Stather).  John 
Wresle  &  Susanne  his  wife,  Richard  Wresle  &  Anne  his 
wife — for  standing  excoicate. 

N.B. — The  above  are  not  named  as  Quakers — but 
their  names  and  the  offences  for  wThich  they  are  presented 
suggest  that  they  were. 

Luddington.  1662.  October  29.  Richard  Seaton, 
Wifirn  Spaine  &  his  wife,  Hugh  Goodhill  &  his  wife,  Rob* 
Pickhas,  Ranold  al  Reginald  Lumb  &  his  wife,  Fortune 
Gatliorne  &  his  wife,  John  Clarke  &  his  wife,  Nich.  Medcalfe, 
Eliz.  Mar^grarn  widdow  of  Garthorpe,  Gerral  Kaldonby, 
Anna  Hobson,  wid,  The  wife  of  Edward  Mell,  Quakers 
of  Garthorpe — all  ex. 

2*663.  Dorcas  the  wife  of  Edward  Mell  of  Garthorpe, 
Elisabeth  Margrave  widdow — for  not  coming  to  Church. 

1663-4.  Edward  Moll — for  not  pouring  his  children 
to  be  baptised. 

1664.  Ap.  21.  Edward  Mell— for  not  baptising  his 
children. 


EPISCOPAL  VISITATIONS 


135 


16640.  Nov.  7.  Richard  Sea  ton,  Anne  Hobson, 
Regnold  Lnm,  Jarard  Haldenby,  John  Clarke,  Nicholas 
Medcalfe,  Hugh  Goodhill,  Fortune  Gat  home,  Willm 
Spaine,  Rob1  Pickaver — for  standing  excoicate  with 
Inhibition. 

1684.  Sep.  17.  John  Clark,  Ann  Spain  widow — 
already  excofhunicate. 

Froddingham.  1662.  Oct.  29.  Jervas  Bainton, 
Thomas  Bainton,  Eliza  :  Bainton,  Willm  Marshall — grand 
miakerc  &  ahsenters  from  the  Church. 

1684.  Sep.  17.  Gervase  Bainton,  [?]  Leonard 
Bainton  &  Flannah  his  wife — for  standing  excoicate. 

Belton.  1684.  Oct.  8.  John  Hallifax  &  Susannah 
his  wife  prtended  to  bee — for  standing  excoicate. 

1685.  Ap.  21.  John  Hallifax  &  Susannah,  his 
prtended  wife — for  not  frequenting  their  pish  Church  to 
hear  divine  service  &  Sermon. 

Epworth.  1662.  Oct.  29.  James  Browne,2  Rich. 
Parnell,2  James  Pettinger, s  Elisabeth  Hudson, 3  Thomas 
Hallifax, 3  John  Urrie  &  his  wife3™ prsented  for  Quakers. 

James  Browne4 — for  not  coming  to  the  pish  Church 
to  divine  service. 

Richard  Parnel!,4  Janett  Pettinger,4  Elisabeth 
Hudson/  Tho  :  Hallifax4 — for  the  like. 

1663,  Ap.  30.  Wee  prsent  as  followeth  for  Quakers 
absenting  themselves  from  their  pish  Church  to  heare 
divine  service  &  sermon.  Lindley  Man,  Henry  Maw, 
Rich  :  Barnard,  James  Browne,  Richard  Parnell,  James 
Pettinger,  Elisabeth  Hudson,  Tho:  Hallifax,  John  Urrie, 
his  wife,  Mary  Smith  widd.,  Geo.  Dunstone — all  ex  antea. 

1663-4.  James  Pettinger,  Elisabeth  Hudson,  Thomas 
Hallifax,  John  Urrie,  George  Dunstone,  Lindley  Man, 
Henry  Man — for  not  coming  to  the  pish  Church. 

Richard  Parnell,  Elisabeth  Hudson,  James  Browne, 
Thomas  Hallifax,  John  Urrie  &  his  wife,  George  Dunster, 
James  Bettinger — for  standing  excoicate. 

:  Thrice  previously  excom. 
3  Twice  previously  excom. 
*  Not  excom.  for  the  first  time. 


i36  EPISCOPAL  VISITATIONS 

Robert  Browne  the  sonne  of  James  Browne,  Ludley 
Man — for  conversing  &  traiding  with  persons  excom- 
municate with  Inhibition. 

Thomas  Hallifax,  Richard  Parnell,  John  Urrie — for 
not  observing  the  30  January  &  29  May  &  other  holy 
dayes  &  Lordsdays — ex. 

Richard  Barnard,  James  Pettinger,  George  Dunston, 
Ludley  Man — for  the  same,  4  Nov.  1663. 

Richard  Purnell — for  refusing  to  pay  his  assessm1 
to  the  repaires  of  the  Church  being  5s. 

John  Urrie — >2S. 

jl  nomas  Hallifax — 2s  6d. 

Mary  Smith  widdow — Is  9d. 

James  Browne — 10s. 

Richard  Parnell — for  keeping  Conventicles  in  his  house- 
Thomas  Hallifax — for  the  like. 

1663.  Ap.  30.  John  Urrie  &  his  wife,  Mary  Smith 
widdow,  James  Browne,  Richard  Parnell,  James 
Pettinger,  Elizabeth  Hudson,  Thomas  Hallifax,  George 
Dunston — for  not  baptising  their  children — all  ex. 

Richard  Parnell,  Thomas  Hallifax,  for  keeping 
Conventicles  in  their  houses. 

Thomas  ,  Hallifax,  Lindley  Mawe — for  keeping 
company  with  those  being  excomunicate. 

1663-4.  James  Browne,  James  Pettinger,  Thomas 
Hallifax,  John  Urrie  &  his  wife,  George  Dunston — for 
standing  excoicate. 

Lindley   La  we. 

Richard  Parnell,  John  Urrie — for  not  baptising  their 
Children  &  standing  excoicate. 

1664.  April  20.  (Lind)ley  Man — for  keeping 
company  with  psons  excomunicate  with  Inhibition. 

1685.  Aprii  21.  John  Urry  &  his  wife,  Thomas 
Hallifax,  for  standing  excoicate. 

.  Haxey.  1662.  Aug.  25.  William  Bursall  &  his 
wife,  Richard  Sampson  &  his  wife,  William  Clarke  &  his 
wife — for  absenting  themselves  from  the  Church. 

Richard  Sampson,  William  Burs  will, — for  having  a 
child  unbaptised. 

1662.  October  29.  William  Birdsall — for  not  coming 
to  the  Church. 


SILENCE— AND  DECLINE 


137 


Richard  Samson  &  his  wife,  William  Clarke  &  his 
wife — for  the  same. 

WiHm  Clarke  for  burying  his  Child  in  his  garding. 

1663.  Ap.  30.  The  names  of  psoits  excomvmicated 
Dec.  14 :  1662  &  soe  continue — William  Clarke  & 
Elisabeth  Fish  his  prtended  wife,  Richard  Sampson  & 
Anne  Chambers  his  prl ended  wife,  William  Bursall  & 
Elisabeth  Hallifax,  his  prtended  wife. 

Psons  excomunicated  with  Inhibition  March  29  :  1662. 
Willm  Clarke  &  Elisabeth  his  p*tended  wife,  Wittm  Bursall 
&  Elisabeth  Hallifax  his  prt  ended  wife,  Richard  Samson 
&  Anne  Chambers  his  prtended  wife. 

1663-4.  Wiitm  Clarke  and  Elisabeth  his  prtended 
wife,  Richard  Sampson  &  Anne  his  prtended  wife,  WiUm 
Bursall,  Elisabeth  Hallifax,  John  Bursali's  prtended  wife 
— for  standing  excoicate  with  Inhibition. 

1683.  May  9.  Thomas  Union  &  Elizabeth  his 
prtended  wife — for  cohabiting  together  as  man  &  wife, 
not  being  Lawfully  marryed. 

Manton.  1662.  Aug.  27  (Manton  cum  Cleatham) . 
Thomas  Wyer  of  Manton  for  not  being  Lawfully  married 
with  Isabel  (Good)  his  pretended  wife. 

G.  Lyon  Turner. 

To  be  continued 


£?tfencc— <m&  ©ccftne 


1729,  iv.  22. — Was  in  the  evening  at  Dolobran  where  was  one 
I\d.  Thomas  a  Iriend  lately  arrived  from  Pensylvania  who  gave  a  large 
account  of  the  country,  but  a  very  different  account  of  the  young  generation 
of  friends  there  who  are  very  much  declining  from  the  Truth  in  many 
Respects. 

Diary  of  John  Kelsall,  of  Wales,  MS.  in  D. 


This  our  annual  meeting  hath  been  large  and  the  company  of  our 
beloved  ancient  friend  Thomas  Gawthrop  [from  England,  see  page  128] 
very  acceptable  and  strengthening  tbo'  his  labour  among  us  hath  mostly 
been  in  the  weighty,  instructive  example  of  solemn  silence. 

From  an  Epistle  of  Philadelphia  Women's  Y.M.,  1775. 


i%%  Conversion  of  Jfosepp  (pfyippG 

flWOSEPH  PHIPPS  in  the  time  of  his  youth  was  very 
£S    ga3r>  an*d  addicted  to  the  dissipating  pastimes  of 
~vv|J'    the  age  ;  his  abilities  were  strong  and  lively,  and 
delighting  himself  much  in  the  Theatre  (to  which 
when  in  London  he  had  free  access),  he  wrote  a  play  which 
got  into  the  Duke  of  Richmond's  hands,  and  which,  after 
his  mind  had  taken  a  serious  turn,  cost  him  some  pains 
to  rescue  from  the  press,  being  offered  one  hundred  pounds 
for  the  copyright: 

He  was  by  trade  a  shoemaker,  but  so  little  of  an 
economist  that  sometimes  from  hunger  he  was  driven 
to  the  necessity  of  eating  his  paste  till  he  could  finish  a 
pair  of  shoes. 

He  was  so  far  gone  in  speculative  reasoning  as  to 
admit  the  belief  that  all  things  came  by  nature,  but  yet 
he  sometimes  had  some  serious  reflections,  and  the 
thought  would  sometimes  present  to  his  mind,  if  there 
existed  a  Superior  Being,  what  state  was  he  in  !  While 
he  resided  in  London,  a  young  man.  of  the  name  of  Hall 
was  liis  companion  in  work,  and  whose  mind  inclined  to 
religion.  He  one  day  said  to  Joseph,  "  What  religious 
profession  do  you  think  is  the  best  ?  Joseph  replied, 
X  H  there  is  anything  in  religion,  it  is  among  the  quakers." 
"  Why,"  said  William,  "  how  came  you  to  know  anything 
of  them  ?  He  replied,  "  I  was  brought  up  amongst 
them."  V  Oh,"  said  William,  "  I  wish  you  would  go  with 
me  to  one  of  their  Meetings."  "  Well,  one  day  perhaps  I 
may." 

Some  weeks  after,  Joseph  appearing  seriously 
thoughtful,  William  said  to  him,  M  Where  will  you  go 
to-day  ?  "  "  I  was  thinking,"  said  he,  "  of  going  to  the 
-quakers'  meeting."  "  I  am  glad  of  that,"  said  William. 
They  went  to  that  call'd  the  Savoy  Meeting,  it  happening 
to  be  the  first  day  after  the  Yearly  Meeting  ;  they  were 
there  early,  and  on  seeing  Benjamin  Kidd  come  in,  William 
so  id,  "  Who  is  he  ?  Do  vou  know  him  ?  "     "  Yes,"  said 

f 

1  The  following  relation  was  given  by  J.  P.  himself  to  Thomas 
Wagstaife.    It  is  printed  in  Friends'  Monthly  Magazine,  vol.  L,  1830. 

i. 


'V 


THE  CONVERSION  OF  JOSEPH  PHIPPS  139 


Joseph.  "I  have  seen  him  in  Yorkshire,  he  is  a  clever 
fellow."  In  the  course  of  the  meeting  Benjamin  Kidd 
preached  particularly  to  the  state  of  those  two  young 
men,  who  sat  weeping  under  his  testimony.  He  said, 
"  I  feel  that  what  I  speak  is  received,  and  I  rejoice  in  it." 
They  attended  several  of  the  succeeding  meetings,  and 
were  both  effectually  reached.  Jos.  Phipps's  vain  asso- 
ciates becoming  a  burden  to  him,  he  found  it  safest  to 
quit  them  and  return  to  York,  where  he  was  received  by 
his  friends  with  kindness.  After  a  time,  the  wonted  levity 
of  his  disposition  began  to  unbend  for  want  of  being 
properly  on  his  guard,  and  he  was  favoured  to  feel  his  hurt. 
About  that  time  Benjamin  Kidd  coming  into  those  parts 
was  again  opened  into  his  state.  The  next  morning  he 
pack'd  up  his  things  and  returned  to  London,  and  entered 
into  the  service  of  Joseph  Walker,  a  valuable  man. 

Joseph  Phipps  was  born  in  the  city  of  York  in  i/oS,2 
a  son  of  Joseph  and  Elizabeth  Phipps  of  that  city,  both 
Friends.  In  1753  he  accompanied,  not  without  some  sense 
of  apprehension,  Ann  Mercy  Bell  (c.  1706-1775),  of  York,  on 
a  remarkable  open-air  preaching  tour  of  the  city  of  London, 
an  account  of  which  was  printed  soon  after.  Seven  years 
later,  he  married,  at  Norwich,  Sarah  Kendall,  of  that  city, 
being  described  at  the  time  as  a  coal  merchant.  The 
removal  of  himself  and  family  to  Norwich  took  place 
about  1766.  He  was  a  religious  writer  rather  than  speaker, 
some  of  his  writings  being  of  a  controversial  character. 
About  1770  he  prepared  and  circulated  an  address,  To 
the  Youth  of  Norwich  Meeting,  which  was  reprinted 
eight  times  down  to  the  year  1818,  and  he  made  one 
incursion,  at  least,  into  the  realm  of  verse.  In  1765 
Phipps  edited  a  new  edition  of  George  Fox's  Journal — 
"  The  Third  Edition  corrected."  His  decease  occurred 
at  Norwich  in  1787.  A  daughter,  Sarah,  married  Ollive 
Sims,  of  Stockport,  in  1788. 

Several  letters  written  by  or  to  him  are  extant  in  D. 
— e.g.  to  Ann  Gurney,  1777,  from  Ann  Mercy  Bell,  1744 
and  1757,  from  Mary  Brook,  1774. 


*  D.N.B.  states  that  he  was  born  at  Norwich,  but  the  Yorkshire 
Registers  confirm  the  above  statement. 


\ 


1060' 


lemster  the  25^  clay  of  the  8th  Month  [1660] 

my  reviedere  frend  wbome  in  my  soul  J  loue  what 
shall  I  sale  vn  to  thee,  truly  I  Can  say,  my  Loue  as  a  springe 
is  Rissen  in  mee,  and  Runs  fresh,  and  freely  throw  mee 
to  thee  deare  Hart  mani  Trialls  Haue  I  had  both  withine 
and  wifiioiite  since  in  the  outward  I  last  saw  thee,  but 
in  the  Light,  the  truth  ;  the  lord  hath  bine  seene  good  to 
Israeli  :  clere  Hart,  this  day  was  a  meting  of  frendes  at 
my  outward  beeinge,  and  the  in  Closed  was  sente  me,  and 
brought  mee  in  a  leter  derected  out  of  Radnor  there,  for 
me  to  send  to  thee  with  spede,  my  reviederd  frend  as  thee 
findes  freedom  in  the  lord,  the  light,  let  me  receue  sorn 
lines  from  thee, 

H:  B: 

my  dere  loue  to  f rends  of  truth  with  thee. 

[Addressed  in  same  hand] 

This  with  speede  to  bee 
deliuered  to  :  g  :  Jf  : 

[Endorsed  in  George  Fox's  hand] 
humfrey  bates 
whoe  viseted  gf 
in  lankester 
presen  who  did 

in  the  trouth  16602  all 

thes  to  be  in  grosed 

[Enclosure] 

By  vertue  of  A  warrant  w<*  this  morning  I  have 
reciued  from  the  Right  honourable  sir  Edward  Nicholas 
Knight  one  of  his  magisteses  principle  seckettaryes,  for  the 
releasing  &  setting  at  liberty  of  George  jTox  late  A  prisoner 

1  Frora  a  copy  in  K.S.P.  (Early  Quaker  Eiihig  Papers,  p.  33).  For 
Bates  (Bache),  see  The  Journal,  vii.  viii. 

•'  G.  F.  is  wrong,  Bates  died  in  1662, 


BERGSON  ON  LITERARY  RESEARCH  141 


in  Lancaster  goale,  and  from  thence  brought  hither  by 
habeous  Corpe,  &  yeasterday  Comited  vnto  your  Cousttady 
I  doe  heareby  Requier  you  accordingly,  to  Releace  and 
sett  the  said  prisoner  George  fox  at  liberty  for  this  shall 
be  your  warrante,  and  discharge,  given  vndr  my  hand  the 
25^  day  of  October  in  the  year  of  cure  lord  god  1660. 

To  Sir  John  lenthall  Knight  marshall  of  }rc  Kings  bench 
or  his  deputy 


[Endorsed] 

Thomas  Mallett's 
order  for  the  release 
of  George  Fox  from 

Prison 
Octob  25.  1660.3 


iPfilS  faculty  [intuition]  is  in  no  way  mysterious.    Every  one  of 


us  has  had  opportunities  to  exercise  it  in  some  degree.  Any 
one,  for  example,  who  has  been  engaged  in  literary  work,  knows 
perfectly  well  that  after  long  study  has  been  given  to  the  subject,  when 
all  documents  have  been  collected  and  all  sketches  made,  one  thing  more 
is  necessary — an  effort,  often  painful,  to  set  oneself  in  the  heart  of  the 
subject  and  get  from  it  an  impulse  as  profound  as  possible,  when  there  is 
nothing  more  to  be  done  than  to  follow  it.  This  impulse,  once  received, 
sets  the  spirit  on  a  path  where  it  finds  again  all  the  information  it  had 
collected  and  a  thousand  other  details.  The  impulse  develops  itself, 
analyses  itself  in  expressions  whose  enumeration  might  be  infinite  ;  the 
further  you  go  on  the  more  is  revealed,  never  can  you  say  everything  that 
is  to  be  said  :  and  yet  if  you  turn  back  to  apprehend  the  impulse  you  feel 
behind  you,  it  is  hidden  from  you.  For  it  is  nothing  but  a  direction  of 
movement,  and  although  capable  of  infinite  development,  is  simplicity 
itself.  Metaphysical  intuition  seems  to  be  of  the  same  kind.  Here  the 
counterpart  of  the  sketches  and  documents  of  literary  production  is  the 
totality  of  the  observations  and  experiences  collected  by  the  positive 
sciences. 

Bergson,  Introduction  to  Metaphysics,  p.  56,  see  Euchen  and  Dergson, 
their  Significance  for  Christian  Thought,  by  E.  Herman,  1912,  p.  160. 

*  Tor  this,  see  Camb.  ]nl. 


Thomas  Mallett. 


\ 


deare  fremd  Margaret  Fox  to  whom  is  my  loue  in 
the  lord  I  Reciued  tewleeters  from  thee  and  I  had  answered 
the  last  but  I  did  not  stay  to  haue  betor  nuse  then  yet 
I  haue  to  send  thee  but  i  need  say  but  leettill  bears 
friends  douth  take  care  to  send  thee  word  but  thy  deare 
husband  has  binn  had  to  and  againe  severall  times  by  the 
keeperes  of  the  prison  for  the  next  day  after  thy  sone 
Lower  went  out  of  London  it  being  the  last  day  of  the 
tearrne  the  Judges  sent  for  thy  husband  to  the  same  plase 
he  was  befor  and  they  gaue  the  sentance  that  he  was  to 
goe  downe  to  wester  which  cannot  be  Revocked  but  all 
the  fauor  that  can  be  showed  to  him  is  that  he  ma}'  gow 
clowne  at  his  owne  Leasuer  and  to  be  there  at  the  sises 
which  is  the  2  day  of  the  2  month  at  woster  but  they 
sent  for  him  in  great  hast  from  kinston  to  haue  him  goe 
then  deare  margaret  thy  care  conserning  the  mony  J 
think  to  Answer  and  gow  and  Reciue  it  my  deare  love  is 
to  tfty  chillderen  and  to  thomas  lower  and  all  freinds 
heare  there  loue  is  to  thee  and  we  are  fellowfeelers  of  thy 
sorow  noe  more  but  my 


these 
for  Sarah  Fell  at 

Swarthmoore  Leaue 
this  with  thomas  Greene 
shopkeeper  in 


loue  Martha  Fisher. 


the  7  day  of  the 

i  month  1673  London 

[Addressed] 


Lancaster. 


[Endorsed  in  George  Fox's  hand] 
m  fisher  to 


m  ff  of  gjf 
1673  read 


1  From  a  copy  of  the  original  in  H.S.P.'  {Early  Quaker  Etiing  Papers, 
p.  46).    For  M.  Fisher,  see  Camb.  Jnl. 


<&tov$t  jfc?  to  (TDxffim  {pt'i\%  16741 

Worcester  goale  this  28^  of  ye  6th  mo,h  1674 
Deare  w  p  : 

To  whom  is  my  lone  &  to  thy  wiffe  &  ffreinds  J  h  •  % 
trouble  thee  with  another  letter  Jncloscd  from  Mary 
lande  By  wch  thou  maist  see  y*  an  order  vpon  worde  is 
entred  in  there  assembly  bookes  :  touchinge  jTreinds 
yea  &  nea  Jnstead  of  an  oath  :  &  the}"  only  stay  for  an 
order  for  confirmation  from  ye  olde  Baltarnoore  when  thou 
goest  to  speake  with  him  thou  may  take  Sam  :  Groome2 
with  thee  :  hee  knows  ye  condition  of  Mary  lande.  &  J 
desire  thee  to  speake  withTho  :  moore3  concerneinge  yt  w<* 
thee  &  J  had  in  discourse  touching  ye  errors  in  ye  Judict- 
ment  :  &  thou  gave  mee  a  hint  though  J  did  not  lay 
much  stresse  in  ye  words  :  ho  we  }rt  J.  Story  &  J :  wilkison 
were  willing  to  referr  there  matter  to  G.  W :  &  A :  P4  for 
they  to  make  an  end  of  ye  strife  they  have  raised  amongst 
jTreinds  :  wee  let  them  Judge  in  truth  &  righteousness 
or  it  will  be  a  fearfull  thinge  else  without  respect  of  person; 
or  favor  shall  be  glad  of  it  &  begun  with  ye  original]  cause 
whether  Jt  was  not  my  letter  f*  J  writt  to  preserue  ye 
vnity  of  truth  &  glor}/  of  God  Jn  y6  north  when  they  first 
fiedd  &  ye  noise  thereof  fled  ouer  ye  nation  &  there  answer 
&  therer  shewinge  it  to  be  quarterly  meetinge  &  soe 
lett  them  goe  doune  into  yc  north  &  with  those  auncient 
ministers  there  with  every  thing  in  order  jTirst  matters 
is  [?  of]  fact  then  matters  of  words  lett  Jt  be  examined 
togeather  with  all  ye  partye  to  ye  differens  y*  Joynes  with 
them  :  &  had  they  donne  this  before  J  came  into  y? 
lande  :  when  they  were  both  doune  in  }'e  north.  &  in 
ye  midst  off  them  especially  G  :  f f :  [ff  is  uncertain,  having 
had  two  letters  written  one  on  top  of  the  other,  but  looks 

From  a  copy  of  the  original  in  the  handwriting  of  Thomas  Lower 
(H.S.P.— Penn  Forbes  MSS.,  ii.  49).  For  other  letters  of  the  Worcester 
imprisonment,  see  Carnb.  Jn!. 

2  Samuel  Groome,  a  London  Friend,  living  at  Limehouse,  was  well 
acquainted  with  affairs  in  Maryland.  There  are  several  letters  in  D. 
written  from  that  Colony,  which  make  mention  of  him. 

3  For  Thomas  Moore,  J. P.,  see  Catub.  Jn!. 

*  That  is,  George  Whitehead  and  Alexander  Parker. 


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most  like  ff]  they  had  donne  well  :  see  J  shouldc  be  glad 
if  they  woulde  take  it  upon  them  :  &  Judge  righteously. 
<S:  lett  euery  thing  haue  Jts  Just  weight  measure  &  pro- 
portion :  &  when  they  haue  donn  lett  them  draw  vpp  an 
account  of  there  Judgement  :  &  recorde  it  in  there  book 
of  there  condemnation  &  Justification  :  that  Coppys 
of  it  may  be  sent  to  the  whome  they  haue  troubled,  butt 
keepe  this  to  thy  selfe  :  &  lett  Jt  not  bee  seene  except  a 
seruice  of  ye  thinge  goes  on  :  but  thou  maist  make  vse 
of  ye  words  :  J  shall  write  a  few  words  to  A.P  :  soe  noe 
more  butt  my  loue.  J  ansed  T:  1  to  writt  this  being  neare 
&  not  able  to  3y  in' bed d  but  risse  about  one  in  ye  morn- 
inge  :  soe  noe  more  butt  my  loue  to  thee  &  ffreinds 

G:|f: 

[On  same  sheet  of  paper  Tho.  Lower  wrote  to  W.  P.] 
Deare  w  :  p  : 

J  haue  been  with  ye  high  sherirfe,  &  vndersheriffe  to 
obtaine  from  them  yc  graunt  of  ye  priviledge  of  ye  townde 
for  my  jfather  to  bee  in  &  whome  J  founde  very  loueinge 
&  ready  to  comply  with  our  desires  :  butt  y*  ye  vnder- 
sheriffe  feared  :  \7t  some  of  ye  Justices  woulde  call  him  in 
question  for  it  hereafter  :  seeinge  such  stockes  of 
Quakers  did  resort  to  him  :  was  tolerable  while  in 
prison  :  hurt  woulde  not  when  abroade  or  in  townde  for 
says  flee  they  haue  sent  one  preacher  to  prison  :  &  nowe 
they  haue  100  corne  into  there  Country  :  wc^  vexes  them 
to  txiinke  :  y*  truth  is  like  to  Jncrease  butt  Jn  discourse 
with  him  8c  others  :  J  fmde  \7t  there  Judgement  is  :  ):t 
a  writt  of  error  :  &  an  arrest  of  the  Judgement  of  sentence 
of  premunire  :  would  undoe  &  ouer  thro  we  all  thisworke 
of  thercs  w<*  if  soe  woulde  much  more  torment  &  plaugue 
them  :  then  if  my  jfather  were  freed  from  his -premunire 
by  ye  kinges  graunt  :  butt  whether  this  be  as  secible  as 
the)7  speak  it  :  J  would  desire  thee  to  be  well  aduiccd 
therein  ;  with  some  able  Couneell  :  before  thou  enter  ye 
doeings  any  tiling  therein  :  for  if  there  be  not  a  certainety 
of  our  throweinge  there  worke  y*  way  &  soe  bringinge 
my  jfather  out  of:  prison  ouer  ther  heads  Jt  were  not 
wisedome  to  enter  intc  it  else  :  but  if  :  vpon  aduicc  with 
Couneell  :  &  mature  consideration  :  Jt  may  be  accom- 
plished best  :  y*  way  :  they  then  may  proceed  to  effect 


THOMAS  LOWER  TO  WILLIAM  PENN  145 

I  it  :  as  thee  shall  be  aduiced.  butt  if  not  then  for  Tho : 
I    moore  &  thee  to  pursue  the  hinges  former  promise  to  him  : 

to  free  him  whensouer  hee  was  preiriUnired  &  thou  maist 
I  assist  him,  &  accompan}7  him  :  in  y*  worke  :  if  you  both 
I  Judge  it  htt  :  my  Jfather  is  still  weakely  &  si  eke  : 
1  rather  worse  then  better  &  wants  aire  very  much  to 
[  refresh  him  :  but  cannot  gett  downe  staires  &  upp  :  hee 
I  is  soe  weake  :  we  haue  sent  to  one  of  yQ  Justices  today  : 
I  caied  Sr  JTrancis  Russell  :  to  try  wrhether  wee  can  gett 
I  him  :  &Coll  Sands  to  Consent  &  Comply  :  with  ye  sheriff es 
I  granntingc  of  Kim  to  bee  att  some  jfreinds  house  in 
I    townde  :  wch  if  they  will  doe  then  ye  sheriffe  hath  promised 

to  doe  it  :  what  will  be  ye  Jssue  of  ye  endeauer  wee  leaue 
I  to  ye  Lorde  :  whoe  turnes  ye  hearts  of  men  as  best  pleases! 
I  him  :  soe  deseringe  an  account  from  thee  of  what  thou 
}:  does  :  or  Can  doe  :  in  this  affaire  by  ye  first  opportunity  : 
[    with  ye  remembrance  of  my  mothers  mine  &  my  sisters 

deare  loue  vnto  thee  :  &  Jfreinds  J  rest 

Thy  dearely  &  tritely  loueinge 

jfreinde  Thomas  Lower 

If  Tho  Moore  be  not  Jn  townde  my  Jf  ather  wouldc 
desire  thee  to  ride  ouer  to  Tho  M  dotes  :  &  Jn  forme  him 
about  ye  errors  :  &  what  aduice  thou  receiues  from 
Councell  vpon  it  :  Coun:  Stroude  was  of  Counceli  for  vs  : 
vpon  his  last  removall  Jt  might  not  be  amisse  to  aduise 

S    with  him  againe  :  Tho':  Rtidy&rll'@fi  can  Jnforrne  thee  u£* 

'    of  ye  Stroud.es  it  was  : 

[Addressed  :]    ffor  William  Penn  these 

leaue  this  with  :  [Philip  Ford] 
att  ye  signe  of  ye  hood  &  scarffe 
in  bo  we  lane  neer  cheapc 
syde  these. 

London 


Men  are  too  often  the  worse  for  their  Wit,  for  their  Learning,  aye  for 
their  Religion  too,  if  Charity  does,  not  humble  and  sanctify  them. 

William  Pennt,  Address  to  Protestants,  Preface. 


For  Thomas  Rudyard,  see  Carnb.  Jnl, 


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0ioi§i  ;§0/c  to  (piiixam  {pmx,  X6751 

Deare  William 

J  Receiued  thy  Letter;  &  my  loue  to  thee  &  thy 
wife  &  ye  rest  of  jTriends,  G  :\V  &  A:P:  &  all  the  rest,  yt 
Jnquires  after  thee  Now  as  Coircerneing  the  things  thou 
writes  to  me,  about  3*e  2  :  Johns2  and  such  as  has  great 
Sfajtli  Concemeinge  them  ;  Then  wliy  would  not  they  seeke 
them,  this  3 :  or  4:  years,  &  come  downe  &  Joined  with  ye 
other  jjfriends,  &  haue  had  Meettings  with  them,  which  it 
is  like  they  haue  known,  how  things  was  ;  &  not  haue 
judged  afarr  off. — And  as  touchinge  the  Jury  Men,  J  doe 
not  vnderstande,  \rt  they  euer  giue  Judgement,  or  pro- 
nounce sentence,  but  onely  try  ye  matter  of  fact  ;  But 
D-r  William  J  shall  not  striue  with  thee  about  matters  of 
lawyor  Law  points,  but  they  made  noe  Exceptions  against 
their  Jury-men  or  Judges,  nor  y*.  they  fmde  any  fault 
with  them,  or  the  matters  evidenced,  onely  one  Article, 
as  J  heare  from  London,  Jn°  Story  protests  against  ; 
And  all  they  y*  does  thinke,  ye  John's  are  wronged,  &  all 
y°  others  are  wronge  in  tneir  Judgem*,  &  proceedings  ag* 
them,  in  their  Meettings,  &  yett  has  putt  them  upon  those 
Meettings  ;  they  themselues  has  beene  ve  orderers,  & 
5  tiers  on  of  these  Meettings,  some  of  them  :  Therefore 
it  had  beene  well  for  them,  to  haue  come  downe,  &  done 
right  at  first,  if  they  thinke  these  haue  done  wronge,  & 
not  complaine  against  y*  which  many  Antient  jTriends  has 
done  ;  For  they  haue  not  Concerned  mee  in  the  thinge  ;— 
And  as  touchinge  any  application  to  them  at  London, 
J  doe  not  see  any  such  thinge  is  done,  but  onely  Lett 
thern  see  what  was  done,  because  their  advice  was 
followed,  in  y«  former  Meettings  as  they  ordered  ;  and 
upon  their  Complainte  upon  their  Judgem4,  they  did  see 
farr  Condescend  to  them,  that  if  they  thought,  the 
.John's  were  wronged,  they  might  come  downe,  &  haue 
a  Meettinge,  with  ye  same  persons,  at  the  same  place,  and 
haue  a  Rehcarseinge  of  y*  matters  a  gain  e  ;  Not  that  they 
wanted  Councell  or  Judgem*  or  their  Advice  in  y*  things  ; 

1  From  a  copv  oi  a  conlcrnporary  copy  (H.S.P. — Fenn  Forbes 
MSS.  ii.  53). 

2  That  is,  John  Wilkinson  and  John  Story. 

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GEORGE  FOX  TO  WILLIAM  PENN  147 


but  had  sound  Judgem1  in  themselues,  J  vnderstand  though 
many  of  them,  J  did  not  see,  ye  came  aboue  40  :  Miles  S: 
waited  upon  them  ye  best  part  of  A  weeke  :  And  as  for 
offerringe  them  another  Meettinge,  J  never  hearde  the}* 
desire  any  such  thing,  or  make  any  such  complainte  ; 
Therefore  lett  them  yt  dos  complaine  aboue,  Come  down,  fk 
I     not  lie  frettinge,  &  troubleinge  themselues  there  ;  And  for 
I     me  to  profferr  A  Meettinge,  that  has  not  beene  Concerned, 
1     &  time,  &  place  for  others,  Except  J  was  there  my  selfe  ; 
I     and  to  gather  upp  them  yt  was  there  then  off  100  :  miles 
f   'Compasse;  Jt  would  not  bee  soe  proper  fo*  me,  as  thern 
I     that  did  first  Concerne  themselues  :   and  to  doe  such  a 
I     t hinge  without  their  desireinge  of  it,  is  to  bringe  a  Question 
■    upon  ye  proceedings  of  them  yt  gaue  Judgement,  who  are 
I     fan  dispersed  abroade  since,  Jn°  Burnyett  for  Wales, 
I     Thomas  Langhorne3  T  Robertson  &  Jon  Graues  for  London  : 
I     And  J  :  Burnyett  &  Rob  :  Lodge  were  lateh'  amongst  there 
j:     Meettings,  &  went  through  them  ;   But  the  two  Johns 
;     would  not  come  neare  them,  to  see  them,  nor  to  complaine 
of  any  wronge  done  them  ;    But  they  haue  had  their 
I     seperate  Meettings  from  jfriends,  before  the  Judgem*  was 
I     given  Ag4  them  ;  and  haue  drawne  upp  a  paper,  subscribed 
[     by  about  84 :  names  at  it,  some  of  wch  such  as  were  Marked 
I    by  Priests,  &  such  as  haue  not  come  amongst  jfriends, 
\     for  seueral  years  past,  &  some  boyes  ;  and  such  are  the 
party  they  are  gatheringe  :  Neithr  doe  J  know,  what  ye 
Complaints  are y*  ys  2  :  Jn°s  write  to  G  :  W  :  or  A  :  P :  about  ; 
;     —  Jn°  Burn  vet  t  &  Rob :  Lodge  were  speakinge  of  writeinge 
I     upp  to  jfriends  at  London,  to  G  :  W: '  &  J  :  Batt,  &  W :  b :« 
j'     thou  mayst  enquire  of  them,  for  their  Letter  ; — And  to 
1     make  A  Nationall  businesse  of  it,  they  haue  not  beene 
such  publicke  persons,  in  ye  Nation  ;  But  where  ye  facts 
1     has  been  Comitted  is  ye  fittest  place,  to  heare  it,  or  neare 
l     it  ; — And  all  such,  as  are  disatisfied,  Whethe1  in  Citties, 

■  Townes,  &  Country  Jts  most  proper  for  them,  who  are 
desireous  to  heare  it  againe  ;  &  the}7  yr  ordered  ye  Meettinge 
first  ;  if  they  be  not  satisfied  with  ye  Judgem*  &  proceed- 

■  ings  off  friends,  of  the  Quarterly  Meettinge,  if  they  cann 
j  get  them  out,  &  if  all  the  others  will  agree  to  it  to  admitt 
\     of  such  A  Meettinge,  before  they  judge  They  Judge  their 

3  For  Thomas  Langhorne,.  sec  F.P.7',,  and  for  others  see  Canib.  Jnl. 

4  That  is,  William  Gibson. 

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148       GEORGE  FOX  TO  WILLIAM  PENN 

former  stubbornesse,  Lett  them  doe  as  they  see  fvtt,  if 
they  thinke  others  has  not  Judged  Equally,  they  may 
come  M  mende  ye  matter  if  they  cann  ;  But  J  doe  not  heare, 
yt  any  of  those  dissatisfied  ones,  doe  mention  any  thtinge 
that  ye  two  Johns  has  done  amisse,  but  onely  complains 
of  such  as  gaue  Judgm*  : — But  truly  William,  the  Lords 
power  Reigns  ouer  all  these  things,  &  his  Euerlasting 
seed  : — &  J  doe  not  understande  that  they  might  haue 
brought  their  84 :  to  ye  Meettinge  if  they  woulde,  f*  hath 
subscribed  to  them  ;  But  these  subscriptions  was  not  in 
y*  begininge.  who  brought  people  to  haue  their  names 
written  in  the  Lambs  booke  of  life  ;  —Now  if  any  of  them 
come  to  me  to  complaine,  they  wTas  greiued  in  any  of  these 
things,  then  J  knew  what  to  say  And  such  as  does  com- 
plaine without  heareinge  or  seeinge,  as  eye  and  eare 
wittnesses,  yett  its  like  has  heard  ;  How  they  haue  vindi- 
cated, fflyeinge  in  times  of  Persecution,  and  affirmed,  that 
ye  paym*  of  Tythes  is  not  Antichristian,  &  womens 
Meetings  are  Rebuted  Monsters,  And  Recording  Con- 
demnations giveinge  ye  Deuill  Advantage  ;  and  singeinge 
in  Meettings  whilst  others  are  prayinge  or  speakeinge, 
Confusion,  &  delusion  ;  &  calls  Monthly  &  Quarterly 
Meetings  Courts  &  sessions  : — And  now  these  things  are 
Judged,  they  t all  this  hard  measure  :  But  iett  all  such 
as  will  stand  by  these  things,  Lett  them  subscribe  their 
names  in  this  List,  &  Joine  with  ye  rest  of  them,  and  make 
a  short  wcrke,  &  appear  what  they  are,  Jfor  these  are  the 
things  J  understand  Friends  has  judged  them  for,  and 
many  other  such  like  things,  though  J  was  not  there  to 
hear  it  :  And  soe  with  my  Lone  to  all,  in  ye  power  of  God, 
that  is  ouer  all  these  disquieted  spiritts 

G :  F : 

Swarthnw  the  30th  of  ye  7th  moTh 

1675 

[Addressed]   {for  William  Penn  these 
Leave  this  with  philHppe 
fforde  at  ye  sigrie  off 
ye  hoode  &  scarfe  in 
bow  lane  nee  re 
cheapsyde 

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^HE  insertion  on  page  114  of  a  reference  to  the 
£J  Matern  family  of  Silesia  has  aroused  interest  in 
^*&f  John  Matern,  early  Quaker  Schoolmaster  under 
Christopher  Taylor,  of  Walt  ham  Abbey,  and 
later  of  Edmonton. 

John  Matern  (c.  1640-1680)  was  a  German  by  birth 
and  ,s  a  man  of  learning,  having  been  educated  in  the 
colleges  of  his  country  and  designed  for  the  office  of  a 
priest  "  {Annual  Monitor,  1844,  P-  1J-?>  i  The  Friend. 
(Phila.),  1845,  p.  228).  But  the  views  on  religion 
preached  on  the  Continent  of  Europe  by  English 
Quakers  reached  his  home-land,  and  found  an  answer  in 
the  hearts  of  himself  and  his  family,  causing  his  father- 
in-law,  Christopher  Proham,  who  was  "  a  priest  "  (Piety 
Promoted,  s.  v.  John  Matern),  and  his  famil}<T  to  desire 
closer  association  with  English  Friends — a  desire  which, 
after  correspondence  with,  and  encouragement  by  some  of 
the  latter,  resulted  in  a  decision  to  quit  their  native  land 
and  settle  in  England.  This  immigration  took  place  in 
1674,  and  there  can  be  little  doubt  that  the  following- 
entry  in  The  Journal  of  George  Fox  (Carnb.  ed.  ii.  324) 
refers  to  this  event  :  — 

1672.  About  1672  there  was  a  priest  convinct ;  in  Polland  who  came 
into  England  ;  with  his  wife  &  his  daughter  &  her  husband  ;  &  ye  rest 
of  his  children  ;  &  his  son  in  law  is  a  scoollmaster. 

Matern  soon  found  his  place  "  amongst  tender 
Children,  to  instruct  them  in  Languages,  and  other 
necessary  Sciences,  appertaining  to  this  outward  Life  '! 
(The  Testimony  of  .  .  .  John  Matern,  1680,  p.  6), 
entering  as  assistant  the  school  conducted  by  Christopher 
Taylor,  first  at  Waltbam  Abbey  in  Essex  and  later  at 
Edmonton  in  Middlesex. 

In  1679,  C.  Taylor  and.  J.  Matern  wrote  A  Compen- 
dium or  Abridgment  of  Three  Languages  the  Latin,  Greek, 
and  Hebrew.  At  the  close  of  his  Preface,  Matern  writes, 
"  The  most  merciful).  God  grant  that  through  his  Grace 
and  blessing,  this  natural  knowledge  of  Tongues  may  tend 


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JOHN  MATERN,  SCHOOLMASTER 


to  his  glory,  and  the  profit  and  very  great  increase  of  many 
Christian  Schools." 

In  this  School,  when  situate  at  Waltham  Abbey, 
there  occurred  a  remarkable  visitation  of  Divine  favour, 
described  in  the  following  words  : — 

Upon  the  4th  clay  of  the  Moneth  called  June  1679,  at  a  Meeting 
in  the  Town  called  Waltham -Abby  in  Essex  of  the  People  call'd  Quakers, 
where  was  present  about  Forty  or  Fifty  Young  Boyes  and  Maidens  ;  God's 
heavenly  Power  brake  forth  in  some  Maids  and  Young  Girls.it  begun  with 
Three  or  Four  at  first,  broke  them  into  Tears  and  Melting  of  Heart, 
continued  so  a  small  time,  then  it  reached  two  or  three  of  the  Younger 
Boys,  v  hich  melted  thorn,  into  Tears  ;  and  in  a  very  small  time  reached 
all  the  Boyes  and  Young  Girls,  many  of  them  being  but  about  Eight  or 
Nine  and  Ten  Years  old  .  .  .  and  at  last  it  reached  unto  the  Elder 
People,  so  that  all  in  the  Meeting  was  broken  by  the  Power  into  Tears 
and  Melting,  which  did  continue  for  about  one  Hour,  until  the  Meeting 
ended.  ...  (.4  Testimony  to  the  Lord's  Power  .  .  .  Amongst 
Children,  1679,  p.  7). 

Of  this  event  Matern  writes  : — ■ 

I  my  self  was  so  overpowered  and  overcome  with  this  Heavenly 
Life,  Virtue  and  Power  of  God,  that  I  did  sha,ke  and  tremble  before 
him  "  {ibid.  p.  17). 

Shortty  after  this,  the  School  was  transferred  to 
Edmonton,  but  John  Matern  \s  connection  with  it  was 
soon  to  be  closed  by  his  early  death.  A  week  before  this 
took  place,  he  wrote  a  testimony  and  prayer,  which,  he 
caused  to  be  read  amongst  the  scholars.  About  four 
hours  before  the  end,  "  the  Family  Meeting  "  was  held 
around  the  fever-stricken  teacher,  and  "  there  Lovingly 
together  we  enjoyed  one  another  in  the  Lord  .  .  . 
so  that  he  was  exercised  in  Singing  Praises  to  the  Lord,  and 
magnifying  his  great  Power  "  (Matern  Testimony,  p.  12). 
He  was  seized  with,  fever  on  the  24th  of  6  mo.,  1680,  and 
expired  on  the  1st  of  7  mo.,  at  seven  o'clock  in  the 
evening. 

Testimonies    to    Matern's    faithful    services  were 
written  by  his  master  and  mistress,  Christopher  and 
Frances    Taylor,    by    his    fellow-teacher,  Alexander 
Paterson,  and  by  several  of  his  youthful  proteges.  0..- 
child,  John  V/oolley,  aged  ten,  thus  expresses  himseli  :  - 

I  can  say,  with  many  more  of  my  School-fellows  that  we  never 
desiied  a  better  Tutor  then  he  was.  When  I  heard  he  lay  upon  his  sick 
bed,  many  times  I  have  cried  to  the  Lord,  in  my  heart  to  raise  him  up 


JOHN  MATERN,  SCHOOLMASTER 


ac*ain  ;  but  it  hath  been  the  will  of  the  Lord  to  take  him  away,  and  now 
he  is  at  peace  to  all  eternity  (Matern  Testimony,  p.  2S). 

In  the  same  printed  volume  are  similar  quaint,  old 
world  utterances  on  the  same  subject  by  William  and 
Edward  Penington  (aged  15  and  13),  sons  of  Isaac 
and  Mary  Penington  (see  Experiences  of  Mary  Penington, 
1 911,  p.  53),  Margaret  Rous  (aged  12),  granddaughter 
of  Margaret  (Fell)  Fox,  and  others.  Of  these  youthful 
writers,  Teacher  Alexander  Paterson  says  : — 

It  cannot  be  in  any  probable  manner  supposed,  that  they  could  frame 
such  things  by  their  own  acquired  Abilities,  but  the  reader  must  confess 
that  it  is  the  Lords  work  (Pref.  to  Matern  Test.). 

Of  the  family  of  John  Matern  little  further  is  known. 
His  wife,  Rosina  Matern,  writes  a  Testimony,  but  gives 
no  biographical  details  (such  as  the  historian  of  Quaker- 
ism so  frequently  desires  and  so  seldom  obtains).  The 
Friends'  London  Registers  inform  us  that  Abigail,  daughter 
of  John  and  Rosina  (Rosannah)  Matern,  was  born  at 
Walt  ham  in  1677,  and  Samuel,  son  of  the  same,  at 
Edmonton  in  1680,  the  latter  living  only  three  weeks. 
After  two  years  of  widowhood  at  Edmonton,  Rosina 
Matern  married  John  Brmghurst,  the  Quaker  bookseller 
and  stationer,  of  London,  and  emigrated  with  him  to  Pa.r 

With  respect  to  the  notice  of  Hans  Matern.  (page  114), 
we  may  hazard  the  suggestion  that  Hans  and  John  are 
the  same.  (1)  The  Christian  name  Hans  may  have  been 
anglicised  to  John  on  its  bearer's  settlement  in  England. 
(2)  Silesia  and  Poland  are  contiguous.  (3)  The  births 
follow  one  another — Hannah  1676,  Abigail  1677,  Samuel 
1680.  (4)  The  wife  in  each  case  is  Rosina,  (5)  The 
name  of  the  mother-in-law  is  Prachin,  and  of  the  father - 
in-law  Proliant,  of  wMch  one  may  be  a  misreading  of  the 
other.  The  London  Registers,  however,  give  the 
parents  of  Hannah  as  Hans  and  Rosyna  Matern,  of 
Holloway  Court,  ShoreditcJi,  at  her  birth  in  1676,  which 
does  not  appear  as  the  home  of  John  and  Rosina. 

If  this  identification  be  correct,  the  following  will 
represent  the  family,  .  but  it  must  be  accepted  with 
reserve. 

1  Rosina  Bringhurst  v;a"  witness  to  a  Pfaila.  will  La  170  r  {Pa.  Gene. 
Soc.  iii.  246). 


152        JOHN  MA  TERN,  SCHOOLMASTER 

Christopher  Proham  =  Barbara  Pkachin' 
|  L  &  others 

John  (Hans)  Matern  —  Rosina~-=John  Brixghukst 
b.  circa  1640  b.  of  London 

m.  d.  b. 

d.  1  vii.  16S0  m.  1682 

d. 


I  I  I 

Hannah  Abigail  Samuel 
b.  1676  b.  1677  b.  &  d.  1680 

The  above  suggestion  receives  some  confirmation 
from  the  discovery,  made  since  the  foregoing  was  written, 
oi  a  reierence  in  the  minutes  of  the  Two  Weeks  Meeting 
held  5  xii.  1693/4,  as  follows  : — 

A  Certtifiicate  signed  in  behalfe  and  concerning  the  Clearness  of 
Barbara  Prachin  Relict  of  Hillarius  Prachin  <fc  Mar j ana  Vanbuylart  and 
Abigail  Materon  Daughter  of  John  Matteron  School  Master  Deceased, 
Directed  to  the  friends  of  Phillidelphia  where  they  intend  to  Transport 
themselves. 

The  Philadelphia  minute  recording  receipt  of  the 
certificate  makes  it  clear  that  Barbara  Prachin  was 
the  grandmother  of  Abigail  Matern  (see  Myers,  Quaker 
Arrivals  in  Philadelphia,  1682-1750,  p.  17). 


9  mo.  1G80.  Backsliders  living  and  dead,  poor  and  rich  to  be  taken 
an  exact  acct  of,  and  Recorded,  and  what  hath  befallen  them    .    .  . 


3  mo.  1705.  Its  desired  that  for  the  time  to  come  noe  Bookes  be 
exposed  to  Sale  for  friends  use  or  spread  abroad  vntill  first  pervsed  & 
approved  by  sensible  friends. 


9  mo.  1 705.  Noe  friend  is  to  binde  or  obliege  his  Apprentice  not  to  sett 
up  his  trade  in  the  same  Towne  or  place  where  his  Master  dwells  it  being 
contrary  to  the  liberty  and  freedom  of  Truth  as  well  as  a  covctuous  prac- 
tice which  this  Meeting  unanimously  and  Zealously  gave  their  Testimony 
and  Judgment  against  as  a  thing  not  agreeable  to  Truth. 


9  mo.  1706.  Monthly  and  province  Meetings  in  ail  their  Accounts  to 
give  a  true  State  of  matters  in  relation  to  the  affairs  of  Truth  Sec  and  not 
by  a  fair  gloss  to  make  things  appear  better  then  they  realy  are  which  its 
feared  is  sometimes  done  by  only  telling  y-  best  and  being  silent  to  the 
wo.tst  pari,  of  things.  ... 

Minutes  of  the  National  Half- Years  Meeting  held  in  Dublin. 


1784' 


Ballitore  22d  01  8th  mo  17S4. 

Abiah  Darby, 
Dear  friend, 

I  look  upon  it  as  a  duty  incumbent  on  those  who 
have  left  an  hospitable  house  &  gone  a  long  journey  to 
let  the  Mastei  or  Mistress  know  what  is  become  of  them. 
Suky  I  believe  would  tell  you  of  our  getting  well  to 
Shrewsbury.  We  lodged  there  at  Friend  Young's,2  and 
his  daughters  would  make  us  breake  our  last  with  them, 
&  would  see  us  in  the  coach  next  morning.  'Xwas  too  much 
— but  being  females,  they  over-ruled.  We  set  off  from 
thence  I  believe  between  3  &  4  o'clock,  but  through  a  delay 
in  waiting  for  another  coach  on  the  road,  did  not  reach 
Conway  till  about  One  o'clock  the  succeeding  morning. 
It  would  have  been  dismal  travelling  in  the  night,  a  rough, 
and  hilly  road,  had  not  Something  (I  humbly  hope)  of 
Good,  tendered  the  spirit  &  prepared  an  offering.  Indeed 
I  know  nothing  which  so  composes,  exhilarates  comforts 
&  strengthens  the  mind  as  a  little  of  that  which  is  divine. 
We  were  indulged  with  a  reasonable  share  of  bed  at 
Conway,  and  with  time  to  view  some  of  the  Antiquities 
of  the  place  before  we  left  it, — -we  ascended  old  Penman- 
maur  with  pretty  good  spirits,  &  Mollys  was  highly  enter- 
tained with  the  stupendous  objects  which  presented 
themselves  on  each  side.  We  reached  Holyhead  in  good 
time  in  the  evening,  &  the  next  evening  (i2v--  i'nst)  we 
embarked  in  the  packet  boat  with  a  pretty  brisk  gale  of 
wind.  The  captain  (Shaw)  being  an  acquaintance  of 
mine  through  special  favour,  we  got  beds,  though  several 
of  the  passengers  wanted—  We  had  a  crowded  &  a  very 

1  From  the  original  in  the  possession  of  John  T.  Dickinson,  of 
Bloxham,  Banbury.  Other  letters,  the  same  to  the  same,  are  printed 
in  Memoirs  of  /?.  and  E.  Shackle*. on. 

2  John  Young  (c.  1721-1795}  was  the  father  of  Rebecca  Young, 
aft.  By  id,  the  travelling  companion  of  Deborah  Darby* 

3  Mary.  aft.  Leadbeater  (1753-1826),  daughter  of  R.  S.'s  second 
marriage. 


154  RICHARD  SUA CKLETON  TO  ABIAH  DARBY 


sick  ship — my  females  were  exceedingly  so — I  was 
pretty  well.  We  were  about  15  hours  on  board  the 
vessel,  then  several  of  us  took  to  the  boat,  &  landed 
a  few  miles  from  Dublin,  where  we  arrived  in  the  evening 
of  I3lb,  &  the  next  day  reached  my  home  safe  & 
well.  My  wife4  and  daughter  Sarah,  my  son  &  his  wife5 
were  all  at  a  distant  Meeting  held  for  this  province.  On 
16th  I  rode  a  few  miles  &  met  them  on  their  return.  They 
were  all  well,  &  I  have  Abundant  cause  of  thankfulness 
to  the  Author  of  all  our  mercies  for  his  gracious  preserva- 
tion &  protection  extended  in  many  instances  to  me  6c 

ttlirie,  -At  Moat,  where  my  wife,   &c,  attended  our 

province-Meeting  were  our  friends  Hannah  Bevington,6 
Sarah  Stephenson,7  Mary  Ridgway,8  Jane  Watson,8 
Edward  Hatton^  &  Joseph  Garratt.10  I  understand  that 
Ministring  friends  had  good  service,  &  that  it  was  a 
favoured  season.  John  Pemberton11  &  Thomas  Cash12 
have  turned  to  the  Gentiles — they  have  been  very  closely 
employed  in  visiting  many  places  where  no  Friends  are 
settled — I  believe  their  labour  is  generally  well  received. 
I  do  not  hear  of  any  Strangers  being  at  present  in  this 
nation  in  the  work  of  the  ministr}',  except  those  above- 
mentioned.  Mary  Ridgway  was  here  two  nights  lately 
on  a  visit  to  her  sister  Anstis  Sparkes,  who  is  our  guest: 

4  Formerly  Elizabeth  Carleton  (1 726-1 804).  Her  grandfather  was 
Thomas  Carleton,  of  Cumberland  and  Co.  Wicklow  (1636-1684),  and  her 
maternal  grandfather  was  George  Rooke  (1652-1742),  also  from  Cumber- 
land, but  finally  of  Dublin  (Memoirs  of  R.  and  E.  Shackleton,  1849). 

s  Abraham  (1752-1818)  and  Lydia,  nee  MeOor,  of  Manchester,  of 
the  family  01"  Fell  of  Swarthmoor  Hall. 

6  Hannah  Bevington  (1 727-1791),  of  Worcester,  was  the  daughter 
of  Joseph  and  Aun  Freeth,  of  Coventry  ;  she  married  Timothy  Bevington 
in  1750. 

7  Sarah  Stephenson  (1738-1802)  was  the  elder  daughter  of  Daniel 
and  Sarah  (Storrs)  Stephenson,  of  Whitehaven.  In  1767,  she  removed 
with  her  mother  to  Melksham  in  Wiltshire,  near  Sutton  Benger,  the 
residence  of  her  uncle,  John  Fry.  An  account  of  this  visit  to  Ireland 
with  H.  Bevington  is  given  in  her  Life. 

8  For  Mary  Ridgeway  and  Jane  Watson,  see  p.  132. 
9j  10  >£ot  identified. 

11  John  Pemberton  (1 727-1795)  was  the  youngest  son  of  Israel  and 
Rachel  Pemberton,  of  Philadelphia.  Of  their  ten  children,  only  three 
survived  them — Israel,  James,  and  John — and  each  of  them  became 
prominent  in  his  special  line.  John  travelled  far  and  wide  as  a  Minister. 
He  died  at  Pyrmont,  in  Germany,  while  on  a  religious  visit  to  the  laud. 

,:  Thomas  Cash  (1738-1  $09)  lived  at  Morley  in  Cheshire. 


El  CHARD  SHACKLETON  TO  ABIAH  DARBY  155 


Mary  was  finely — she  reported  Jane  not  to  be  in  a  very 
good  state-  of  health — Notwithstanding  the  rumours  of 
commotion  in  this  land,  we  secrn  to  enjoy  present 
tranquillity,  through  the  favour  of  a  merciful  Providence— 
I  wish  we  may  all  rightly  improve  this  present  tranquillity ; 
for  though  no  publick  disturbance  should  be  permitted  in 
our  time  (which  is  uncertain  :)  yet  a  day  of  close  trial  we 
know  awaits  each  of  us  individually  a  day  in  which  if  the 
best  will  have  nothing  to  spare,  astonishment  will  surely 
overtake  the  careless  the  lukewarm  &  the  unprepared. 

I  request  thou  wilt  present  my  kind  greetings  to  all 
thy  family,  to  cousin  Sam  &  his  Deborah  and  thy  daughter 
Sally,  to  thy  sister  Thompson,  Cousin  John  Barnard  & 
wife,  &  Suky — to  thy  Son  Rathbone  &  his  wife,  Anne 
Summerland  &  D.  Rose.^  My  wife,  Anstis  Sparkes  & 
daughter  Molly  heartily  join  in  this  salutation  to  thee  & 
them.  Please  also  to  present  the  same  to  my  friend  Richd 
Re3molds  &  his  family.  Mary  Ridgway  desired  her  dear 
love  to  be  remembered  to  you. 

With  a  grateful  sense  &  acknowledgment  of  all 
your  kindness  &  civilities,  &  with  much  esteem  &  respect, 
I  remain, 

thy  affectionate  friend, 

Richp  Shackleton 

P.S.    While  I  was  loitering  at 
Holyhead  I  amused  myself 
writing  the  annexed  lines — 
My  time  might  indeed  have  been 
better  employed  ;  but  I  thought 
it  pity  that  so  good  a  sentiment 
should  have  been  badly  handled 
If  they  please  thee,  I  shall  not  deem 
my  leisure  hour  quite  lost. 

On  travelling  to  Coalbrook-dale  in  the  night-time. 

To  Coalbrook-dale,  alone  ;  by  night, 

I  journey 'd  pensive,  slow, 

And  tired  from  Lincoki-huTs  proud  height 

I  view'd  the  vale  below. 

»•*  For  most  of  the  Friends  here  mentioned  see  Extracts  from  the 
Diary  of  Abiah  Darby,  pp.  79-9-'. 


156  RICHARD  S HA C KL ETON  TO  ABIAH  DARBY 


Dreadful  the  view — in  dusky  spires 
The  smoky  columns  rise, 
And  fiend-like  forms  stir  up  the  fires 
Which  redden  all  the  skies. 

Like  Phlegethon  a  river  pours 
Beneath  an  iron-bridge  it's  flood  ; 
A  lake  like  Styx  tremendous  roars, 
Black,  baleful,  &  defil'd  with  mud. 

Dire  sounds  I  heard — I  saw  with  dread 

The  fiery  surges  swell, 

Aghast  I.  stopp'd  my  course  &  said, 

"  Oh,  sure  this  place  is  Hell." 

At  length  recover'd  from  my  fears 
-    I  sought  the  stately  dome 

Where  Courtesy  with  kindness  cheers 
And  strangers  find  a  home. 

Received,  refresh'd  &  edify'd 
With  social,  Christian  grace 
Beneath  Abiah's  roof — 1  ciy'd, 
"  Sure  Heaven  is  in  this  place." 

[Addressed] 

Abiah  Darby 

Coalbrock-dale 

Eneland. 

[Endorsed  in  another  hand] 

Richard  Shackleton    4mo  1784. 

[in  another  hand] 

J[ames]  Pfhillips]  intends  printing  a  neat  small 
Edition  of  AD's  Catechism— if  she  has  any  remarks 
to  make. 


1717.  Sarah,  daughter  of  John  Cox,  a  Quakerof  Chipping  Wycora.be, 
baptised  Dec'  9. 

Trauscript  of  Register  of  Woobarn.  co.  Bucks. 


I  QjUcotfe  of  ^vitnH  ttmdUn^  va  ^uhnlh 
1656*1765 


•  1-      ■  .  :VV5,.,  ^  fl^:i8?|lWirt    II  ■■ill',  i.ln   •■■'■'ti  'Hi 

The  following  is  printed  from  the  original  manu- 
I  script  preserved  among  Friends'  records  in  Cork.  This 
I  manuscript  was  presented  to  Cork  M.M.  in  igoo,  by 
I  uiizdhtih  JLecky,  now  b!  London',  formerly  of  Cork. 

The  importance  of  this  Record  will  be  readily  appre- 
ciated seeing  it  contains  biographical  details  of  many 
;  Friends  of  the  second  period  of  Quakerism.    Time  and 
space  forbid  the  insertion  of  notes  with  further  biograph- 

■  ical  particulars,  but  reference  in  regard  of  some  of  the 
;  Friends  named  may  be  found  in   this  and  previous 

volumes  of  The  Journal,  and  also  in  the  notes  to  the 
Cambridge  edition  of  The  Journal  of  George  Fox. 

There  is  a  written  copy  of  the  orginal  Record  in  D. 
For  another  list — M  Friends  of  the  Ministry  who  visited 
Ireland  M — see  Rutty's  History,  1751. 

A  Book  Containing  a  Catalogue  of  ye  names  [o.f]r 
Friends  in  the  Ministry  who  from  time  to  time  jvi-] 
sited  ye  Meetings  of  jfrds  in  Ireland  but.  more  particu- 
larly Corke  Bandon  &  the  parts  westward  of  Band[on] 
since  the  year  1656  as  by  a  paper  written  by  \V[ra] 
Morris  ye  principal  JTrd  of  ye  west  parts  d[oth]  appear  ; 
who  gives  an  ace*  (Viz1)  The  folio w[ing]  Ministers  came 
I  as  far  as  y&  West  in  ye  [service]  of  Truth  ;  from  whence 
may  be  Concluded  y[*|  Meetings  were  first  settled  at 
Corke  &  Bando[n]  places  were  in  the  way  to  the  West, 
it  is  Certajm]  that  Corke  &  Bandon  were  visited  also. 

■  And  it  [may]  be  supposed  when  Wm  Morris  began  t  o 
!    write  down  [y2]  names  of  jTrds  y*  visited  the  West  lie  did 

not  begin  from  ye  first  y*  visited  yl  part  of  ye  Country 
but  [he]  some  time  after  made  a  Calculation  to  yf-  year  i6[?] 
according  to  his  Memory  not  regularly  not  Ce[rtain]  that 
he  remembered  all  ye  jjfr$  y*  so  Visited  ye  wes[t  in]  y* 

1  Words  in  mac-:.ct.:,  have  been  supplied.  The  edge  of  the  paper 
has  worn  away. 


157 


158     FRIENDS  TRAVELLING  IN  IRELAND 


year.  The  Ace*  be  gives  is  Immediately  ne[xt]  after 
mention  is  made  of  Fran  Howgill  &  Edw.  [Burrjough, 
y*  first  Ministers  of  Truth  in  those  part[s]  Viz1  Fran 
Howgill  &  Edwd  Eurrough  fcjame  to  Corke  in  y« 
year  1655  their  service  being  [so]rne  times  together  & 
sometimes  asunder,  Fran  went  to  Bandon  &  a  Convince- 
ment  being  there  about  }7e  same  time  as  at  Corke  Meetings 
were  settled  in  each  place  &  ye  sd  Fran  went  also  to  Kinsale 
&  found  [sjome  also  who  Embraced  ye  Truth  there  &  a 
Meeting  [after]  sometime  was  settled  there  &  in  ye  same 
year  pfeli]z  Fletcher  &  Eliz  Smith  had  been  at  Corke  & 
Ban  [do]  n  <&  were  very  serviceable  more  Especially  y« 
former  [wh]ose  abode  in  Service  of  ye  Ministry  had  been 
[lojng  in  Minister,  Fran  &  Edw*  were  taken  up  [by]  an 
ordr  from  Dublin  &  from  thence  Banished  [the]  Land  in 
ab*  6  months  after  they  Arriv'd  In  the  next  year  1656 
Will™  Morris  a  Cap*  in  ye  Army  a  wise  &  Devout  man  recd 
ye  Truth  &  owned  ye  Principles  of  ye  People  called  Quakers 
&  being  Faithful  &  Zealous  therein  he  obtained  to  have 
a  Meeting  settled  at  his  house  who  Dwelt  then  at  Kill- 
finnan  near  Ross,  but  not  long  after  (ab*  some  4  or  5  yrs) 
he  remov'd  t[o  a]  place  called  Banduff  w<&  afterwards 
bore  ye  namfe  of]  Castle  or  Salem  &  at  these  places 
he  gives  [ajn  ace*  of  ye  following  ffrds  in  ye  Ministry 
who  came  to  visit  the  Convinced  People  of  them  parts 
as  first 

Eliz.  Fletcher  Marg*  Sutton 

The5  Loe  William  Gibson 


1659 
D° 


Rob*  Malins 
Edw.  Burrongh 
a  second  time 
John  Moon  & 
Joseph  Coale 
Marcus  Lynch 
The5  Bracey 
Simon  Harrison 
Jas  Adamson 
Rob*  Lodge 
John  B  urn  yea  t 
Christophr  Bacon 
Kath  Evans  & 
Sarah  Cheevers 


1669     Jn°  Haydock  &  ah* 
Is*  mo.     12  imo  went  for 
England  again 
1669    George  Fox 


John  Stubbs 
James  Lancaster  & 
Thomas  Briggs 
Solomon  Eccles 
James  Fletcher 
\\7m  Pen  11 
John  Wilkinson  & 
Jo] m  Tiffin 
John  Banks  & 
Richd  Johnson 


FRIENDS  TRAVELLING  IN  IRELAND  159 


[i6]64 
[i6]69 

[i66]9 


[16J73 


Benjamin  Brown 
Alice —  ec  Mary  — 

from  Virginia2 
Hester  Biddle  & 
John  Wilkinson 
John  Bispham, 
Kathn  Cooper  & 
Hester  Lund 
Sam1  Thornton 
John  Burnyeat 
a  second  time 
James  Park 
John  Burnyeat 
a  third  time 
John  Tysoe  & 
Tho.  Atkinson 
Rob1  Lodge 
a  second  time 
Richd  Watson 
John  Haydock 
a  second  time 
John  Burnyeat 
a  fourth  time 
Rob1  Lodge  3d  time 
Patrick  Livingstone 
John  Abraham 
Wm  Edmondson 
Frair3  Rogers 
Thomas  Dockery 
John  Taylor  & 
James  KnowJes 
Humphry  Beeland 
Edw?  Edwards 
George  Harrison 


order  as  their  com- 
ing into  ye  Country 
was  from  wch  place 
he  drew  a  line  & 
begins  again  as 
foil  o  wet  h. 


2  1 


The  foregoing  is  9  7 
Judged  to  be  cal- 
culated from  Mem- 
ory in  after  time 
because  it  appears 
they    are    not  in 

crhaps  Alice  Ambrose       Mary  Tomkins.    Sec  p.  121. 


1676  Thorn5  Larrymore  & 
Edwd  Searson 
Alice  Leak 

John  Simcock  & 
Roger  Longworth 
Thomas  Dockery  & 
Richd  Johnson 
Thomas  Briggs 
Samuel  Burges  & 
Oliver  Sansom 
John    Ha}rdock  3d 
time 

1677  Sam1  Waldenneld 
John  Rallett 
John  Tiffin  & 
Mary  Worrell 

3d  of  7mo Bingley 

Rob4  Lodge  4th  time 
Ja*  Holliday  & 
John  Watson  (this 

7rc0  6    latter  was  Watson 
of  Cumberland) 

nmo  6    Kathn  Norton 

1678  Two  Women  Friends 

out    of  Lanca- 
shire near  Wiggan 
5     Richd  Kitchin  <& 
Leonard  Kearly 
9    7      Nathaniel  Smith 
John  Watson 
(above)      &  ye 
school  Master  of 
Ccrke  whose  name 
was  Rich'1  Go  with 


i6o     FRIENDS  TRAVELLING  IN  IRELAND 


1680    Roger  Lorigwor t  h  & 

Rob1  Robertson 
1680  accompany'd 

James  Atkinson 
of  Ardee  y«  fore- 
going jTrds  had  a 
service  for  Truth 
at  his  house  in 
particular  (i.e.) 
W9»  Morris's 
iimo     Wm  Stockdale  & 
i6$,8    Alexand*  Seat  on 
16S0    Roger   Haydock  & 
4ma  gth    R0bt  I-Iatton. 

These  four  last 
mentioned  wth  Wm 
Bingley  before 
had  Meetings  at  ye 
Ho  [use]  of  John 
Allen's  a  late 
Major  in  ye  Army 
whose  dwelling 
was  5  miles  nearer 
Ban don  than 
Castle  Salem. 


After  Will*  Morris 
Decease  wch  was 
o[n  the]  n*h  day 
of  1 6  So  his 
son  Fortunatus 
gfave]  an  account 
of  these  following 
to  have  Meetings 
at  Castle  Salem 
wch  are  far  short 
of  ye  number  3'* 
visited  that  place 
alter  his  Fathers 
Decease  &  before 
ye     War  broke 


out  m  ye  yeai 
16S8. 

16S1    Fran5  Rogers 

George  Harrison 
Jn°  Watson  (afore 

mention' d) 
Wm  Stockdale 
Wni  Edmondson 
[i6]S2   Willm  Bingley 
Geo.  Harrison 
John  Burnyeat 
Benjan  Bangs 
thus  ends  the  ace* 

of  Wm  Morris  & 

his  son 


The  following  acct 
Thos  Wight  hath 
collected  from 
papers  of  the 
[Ri]se  &  Progress 
of  Truth. 

1682  Viz"  John  Banks 
John  Tiffin 
Peter  Fearon 
John  Burnyeat 
Mary  Worrell 
Eleanor  Star  key 
Thomas  Wilson 

1683  Thomas  Docker y 
John  Burnyeat 
John  Hay  ton 
George  Rooke 

1685  John  Burnyeat  (his 
coming  out  ol 
England  after  hi: 


settling  in 


Ire- 


land) 
Thorn*  Wilkinson 
Roger  Longworth 
1686    Peter  Fearon 
William  Carter 


FRIENDS  TRAVELLING  IN  IRELAND  i6r 

George  Knipe  Thomas  Musgrave 

Joan  Vokins  Ed\vd  Bartwissell 
Thos  Markham            168S    James  Dickenson 

Rob-  Collier  Benjamin  Coole 

1687    Oliver  Sansom  William  Fell 

John  Baird  Andrew  Taylor 
Ben j  a  Br 0  wn  2d  t i  rn  e 

The  Wars  in  Ireland  beginning  in  this  last  5^ear 
&  the  Intercourse  of  Snipping  Stop!  JY[rds]  could  not 
come  out  of  England  to  Visit  the  Naftion]  till  after  the 
year  1691. 

The  Names  of  such  Friends  of  the  Ministry  as  came 
in  the  service  of  Truth  to  Visit  ye  Meetings  of  Corke 
Ban  don  &  Skibbereen  since  ye  year  1691  after  the  War 
Ended. 

1692. 

imo  4.  Rob1  Barrow  a  Mason  of  Kendall.  Randal 
Bulman,  Husbandman  of  Cumberland.  George  Rooke 
Carpenter  of  Cumberland. 

5ao  18.    Anthony  Sharp,  Clothier,  from  Dublin. 

7.  30.  Abraham  Fuller,  Linen  Weaver,  Leinster 
pro[v]. 

8.  6.    John  Ellis,  Taylor  from  ye  County  Wexford. 
11.    John  Watson  Husbandman  from  Count}'  Carlow. 

1693. 

iw0  28.    James  jfetch  Glover  County  of  Wicklow. 
2mo   15.    Rob4  Barrow  a  2d  time  &  w*  him  Alexand* 
Seat on. 

3mo  21.  George  Rook  from  Dub.  he  settling  there 
aftr  y?  war. 

28.    Thomas  Rudd  a  Miller  from  Yorkshire. 

[  ]mo  17.  Benjamin  Brown,  Shoe  Maker,  &  Rob* 
■Wardell,  pump  maker,  from  Yorkshire. 

[  ]    James  Knowles  Saddle  tree  maker  from 

Co.  Wicklow. 

7mo  14.  Thos  Trafford  Glover,  &  Nich*  Lock,  Sadler, 
Prov.  of  Leinster. 

16  &  18.  Jonathan  Tyler  Comber,  &  John  Saunders 
weaver,  from  Wiltshire. 

8>uo  12.    Jane  Annsloe  unmarried,  from  Yorkshire. 


162    FRIENDS  TRAVELLING  IN  IRELAND 

21.    Aaron  Atkinson  from  abl  Cumberland. 
jo™0  6.    John  Hall  wUia  Message  to  Ireland  from  abl 
Durham. 

7*b.  Paul  Moon,  Currier,  Bristol  &  Rob4  Robertson 
Shoemaker  from  Ulster  Pro. 

nmo  17.  Thos  Wilson  Carpenter  &  Willm  Greenup 
Husbandman  from  Cumberland. 

I2mo  23.  The  same  Thos  Wilson  with  John  Watson 
of  the  bounty  of  Catherlow. 

1694. 

gib  2**:  Willm  Edmondson  Husbandman,  Leonard 
Kerley  Clothier,  Leinster  Pro. 

5«°  7ih. — John  Banks  Glover,  James  Lancaster 
Mariner,  Cumberland. 

6mo  ^tht  James  Dickenson  Glover,  Cumberland. 
A  Meeting  being  now  settled  at .  Skippereen  where  a  few 
Jfrd5  Settled  after  the  War  said  James  visited  Bandon 
&  the  Western  parts  and  returned  to  the  Pro.  Meeting  to 
be  then  at  Limerick. 

ymo  jcjih.  Nicholas  Lock.  Landed  from  Wales  after 
being  in  England  in  Truths  Service. 

ymo  27.  Tho3  Musgrave  Clothier  from  Yorkshire 
to  our  Proy.  Meeting  &  so  to  Leinster  Pro.  Meeting. 

gmo  27.  Tho3  Musgrave,  came  again  &  ye  31st  went 
\vth  Friends  to  ye  half  Yrs  Meeting,  Dublin. 

9m°  16.  The  sd  Thomas  returnd  &  was  at  our  Pro. 
Meeting  in  Corke  where  he  Embarkd  iomo  18th  for 
Barbadoes. 

I0mo  j^th.  Thos  Trafford  &  John  Watson  to  Bandon 
&  Skippereen  &  back  to  3*e  Province  Meeting. 

[i]i  19%    Tho3  Wilson,  Nich3  Lock  &  John  Steevens. 

23.  Anne  Wilson  a  young  woman,  to  Bandon, 
Skippereen  &  Prov.  Meeting. 

12™  18.  Wil}*?  Ellis  Linen  weaver  from  Yorkshire 
to  Bandon  &  the  West. 

[i2>°  16.  Gershon  Boat  Husbandman,  Joshua 
Northall  yc  same,  Pro.  Leinster. 

1695. 

2rao  12.  George  Rook,  to  Bandon  &  the  West  & 
then  back  to  the  Province  Meeting. 


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t 

FRIENDS  TRAVELLING  IN  IRELAND  163 

I9tb.    David     Palmer     Blacksmith,  Cumberland, 
E   Timothy  Townsend,   Herefordshire.    To  the  Province 
Meeting, 

5mo  8th.    Jasper  Tregos  of  this  Town  of  Corke  having 
I   Visited  JTrds  of  Scotland  now  return'd  home. 

20th.  George  Knipe  Blacksmith  of  Lancaster,  to  yc 
:     Pro.  Meeting  Bandon  &  ye  West. 

gmo  igth.  John  Watson  he  went  to  a  Montlily 
1  Meeting  at  Castle  Salem.  George  Rook  only  to  ye  Province 
I  Meeting.  George  Knipe  Chas  Howell  to  Pro.  Meeting 
,     &  so  to  Bandon  &  ye  West. 

9^°  22d.  John  Boulton,  Cooper,  John  Cooksey, 
Shoemaker,  from  Glocestershire  to  ye  Pro.  Meeting, 
Bandon  &  ye  West. 

iomo  7.  Joseph  Glaister,  Joseph  Glaister,  Kinsmen, 
to  Bandon  &  ye  West. 

ip°  2d.    John  Watson  to  Corke  Pro.  Meeting. 
4th.    John    Thompson    Butcher    of  Westmorland. 
George  Knipe  again  with  him.  to  }'e  same  Pro.  Meeting. 
John  Thompson  went  to  Bandon  &  ye  West, 
umo  25.     Henry    Payton    Sarah   Clark,    Bro.  & 
l-     Sister  from  Worcestershire  to  Bandon  &  Skippereen. 

Will™  Edmondson,  Joshua  Northa.ll,  To  ye  Pro. 
Meeting  of  Corke. 

i" 

1696. 

irao  28.  Thos  Trafford,  George  Rook,  Joshua 
Bunion,  ye  later  an  Ipswich  11a n  (a  Comber)  who  went 
I  to  Bandon  &  the  West,  he  died  at  Bally-hagan  in  ye 
I     North  of  Ireland. 

2mo  25.    John  Watson. 

4mo  3d-    James  Ivans  on. 

6.  James  Fletcher,  Rachel  Rutter,  of  Cheshire. 
Mary  Barlow  of  Dublin. 

4mo  22.  John  Iveson,  Mary  Pearson,  from  Cumber* 
I  land  came  from  ye  Pro.  Ms  at  Limerick  &  went  to  Bon  dun 
I,'.  &  ye  West. 

6Tno  6.    Leonard  Kerley  went  to  Bandon  &.  the  West. 
7th.    John  Watson  &  Anthony  Sharp,  went  no  farther 
than  Corke. 

19.  Mary  Pitts  from  Herefordshire  was  acconv 
I      panied  w&  Marg*  Bo  wen  &  W*h  them  came  Sarah  Stephens 


•3564    FRIENDS  TRAVELLING  IN  IRELAND 

of  ye  County  of  Wexford,  Maiy  &  Sarah  went  to  Bandon 
&  the  West. 

7M0  5-  John  Bisphan  from  Lancaster,  a  Potter, 
James  Knowles  went  to  Bandon  &  ye  West. 

14.  John  Gratton  of  Darbyshire  Godfrey  Newball 
his  Kinsman  they  were  at  ye  Pro.  Meeting  &  went  to 
Bandon  only. 

8mo  26th.  ThosTrafford,  Nichs  Lock,  To  the  Province 
Meeting. 

iqmo  ^th_  John  Watson,  Gershon  Boat  to  ye  Pro. 
Meeting. 

i2rao  23  26.  John  Watson  Nichs  Gribble  of  y- 
Pro.  of  Leinster  were  at  our  Pro.  Meeting. 

1 1X10  15.  Nichs  Jackson  from  Lancashire  Mary 
Robinson  from  Cumberland  went  to  Bandon  &  ye 
West. 

1697. 

f    ]mo  10.    John  Stephens  of  y*  County  of  Wexford. 

2mo  24th.    Joseph  Glaister,  Peter  Fletcher  of  Dublin. 

4ino  2d.  James  Knowles,  James  Fetch,  Eliz  Steer, 
Mary  Robinson  of  Ulster,  Came  from  ye  Pro.  Meeting 
at  Limerick  &  to  Corke  and  so  to  Bandon. 

6™  14^.  Thomas  Wilson,  John  Watson,  To  y* 
Pro.  Meeting  of  Corke. 

ymo  Anthony  Sharp  carne  about  Business  & 

stayd  a  week  to  ye  Province  Meeting. 

gmo  23.    John  W'atson  to  ye  Pro.  Meeting. 

T0mo  xjtij,  Nichs  Jackson  Julian  Frankland,  ye  latter 
accompanyd  Anne  Atkinson,  Bandon,  WTest  &  Pro.  Me. 

iimo  Ist.  John  WTatson  &  wife  who  came  to  Visit 
their  Daughter  who  was  Sick  but  stayd  y«  i£t  &  3rd  day 
Meets. 

II«K5  26.  Nichs  Locke  went  to  Band  &  West  & 
Back  to  Pro.  Meeting. 

29.    Nich1  Gribble  to  ye  same  Province  Meeting. 

1698. 

2mo  16.    John  Watson  to  yz  Province  Meeting! 
3rG0  28.    Thomas  Thompson,  Rob1  Turner,  of  York- 
shire, went  to  Bandon, 

4fP  17.    John  Everard. 


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FRIENDS  TRAVELLING  IN  IRELAND  165 

4mo  11.    John    Barcroft  from  Leinster  Province. 

12th.  William  Penn  The3  Story  these  w^  Jn° 
Everard  $tay<i  some  time  at  Corke  &  had  a  Meeting  at 
Bandon. 

18th.    Peter  Fearon,  Glover  from  Cumberland. 

27.    George  Rooke  from  Dublin. 

5«°  15th  ipth.  John  Danson  John  Watson  from 
Lancashire.  Samuel  Waldenfield  John  Vaughton  of  Lond, 
were  at  ye  Pro.  M. 

6mo  10.  Anne  Wilson  a  young  woman  to  Corke 
ct  BaiitfoTi;  She  came  some  time  after  to  Corke  again. 

17th.  Stephn  Hunter,  James  Knowles,  of  Yorkshire, 
went  to  Bandon. 

8mo  8.  John  Salkild  Husbandman  from  Cumberland 
to  Bandon  &  the  West. 

.28th.  Nichs  Lock,  Thd«  Stephens,  from  Leinster 
Province. 

IOmo  ^tht  Chas  Howell,  John  Stephens,  to  Bandon 
&  ye  West. 

12th.  Willm  Hornell  from  London  by  trade  a  Porter. 
Jonas  Shaw  of  Ulster  Pro.  came  \v*h  him  they  went  together 
to  Bandon  &  ye  West.  Jonas  left  him  at  Corke  a&ft*  v. h ich 
\ym  }ia(|  a  large  Meeting  at  Kinsale  &  another  at  Bandon 
&  staid  y£:  Province  Meeting. 

ioao  24tl}.  Jas  Dickenson,  Thos  Wilkinson,  Will^ 
Greenup,  George  Bgwley,  Nichs  Jackson. 

26.  John  Neas,  Timothy  Towse.  These  7  with 
William  Hornell  were  all  at  ye  Province  Meeting  at  Corke 

Il'mo  ye  jst, 

IV00  21.  Jacob  Fallowfield  from  Cumberland 
Hosier,  to  Bandon. 

i2rao  10.    John  Watson. 

imo  6.  Mary  Young  of  Bristol,  Thos  Upsher  of 
Colchester,  the}'  landed  both  here  from  Bristol. 

1699. 

3*0  20th.  Th.os  Musgrave  and  wth  him  his  own  & 
many  families  of  Friends  arrivd  here  from  Liverpool  took 
in  provisions  &  were  bound  for  America. 

4m<-  8.  John  Watson  to  Band*  Skippereen  8t  back  to 
P.M.  at  Clomnell. 


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i66    FRIENDS  TRAVELLING  IN  IRELAND 

21.  Eleanor  Carlo wd  a  Manks  woman  Sarah  Baker, 
whose  Sir  name  before  was  Clark  came  from  the  sd  Pro. 
Meeting  &  went  to  Bancln  &  ye  West. 

5mo  7th.  William  Godfrey  from  Minehead  he 
landed  at  Baltimore  &  tho  a  Publick  Friend  came  chiefly 
to  Visit  his  relations  in  these  parts. 

ejmo  jsjth,  Will™  Fell  who  had  been  twice  in  this 
Nation  before  ye  War. 

24.  Mary  Mitchell,  Sarah  Rayn,  from  England. 
John  Stoddart,  from  Dublin. 

6mo  22d.  John  Salkild,  whose  coming  this  time  was 
to  reside  as  a  servant  wth  Joseph  Fenn  he  stayd  ab*  15 
months  in  wch  time  he  was  very  servicable  here  & 
here  aways  &  took  shipping  from  hence  in  ye  9th  mo. 
1700  bound  to  ye  American  Country  in  Truth's  Service. 

Smo  29.  Tho5  Wilson,  Jacob  Fuller,  from  Leinster 
Province. 

ioTno  Ist.  Rob1  Hoope  of  Ulster  Pro.,  John  Barcroft 
of  Leinster,  to  ye  Pro.  Meeting. 

lomo  3d,  George  Rooke,  Richd  Sealy,  from  Dublin 
were  at  ye  sd  P.  M. 

nmo  6.  Tho5  Turner  of  Suffolk,  Thos  Harrison  of 
Northumberland,  to  Bandn  &  West  before  ye  Pro.  M. 

rt»?  .12.    Nicns  Gribble  to  Pro.  Meeting. 

i2rao  9.  Willm  Armstrong,  John  Carlile,  from  Cum- 
berland to  Ban  don  &  West. 

i2mo  17.  John  Watson  staid  a  week  to  ye  Pre. 
Meeting. 

irac  18.  Will**  Townsend,  Thos  Chalkley,  from 
London  Landed  here  from  Bristol,  went  to  Bandon  &  v° 
West. 

1700. 

2"i0  4.  Will™  Edmondson  a  little  before  the  Prov. 
Meeting. 

3mo  25.  Mary  Simpson,  Jennet  St  owe,  to  yc  Pro- 
Meeting,  Bandon  &  Skippereen. 

4®°  8.  Jane  Fear on,  Benjamin  Holme,  ftovd 
Cumberland,  accompa  w^  Eliz.  Brookfkld  of  Dub.,  they 
were  at  Will*  Aliens  &  Jonathan  Hutchinsons  Marriage 
in  one  day  the  women  were  at  a  Meeting  at  Bandon  as 
also  .Ben] amir,  but  he  went  forward  to  Skippereen. 


FRIENDS  TRAVELLING  IN  IRELAND  167 

4™  10.  Martha  Broadhurst,  Rebecca  Trafi'ord,  of 
Cheshire  landed  here  frohi  Bristol. 

12.  Dan'  Rigbie  of  Cumberland  James  Knowles 
accomp'd  both  went  to  Bandon  but  yft  isi  to  Skippercen. 

24.  Elizabeth  Beck  (so  called),  but  by  Marriage 
RawJinson  of  Lancashire  was  accompanyd  by  a  woman 
friend  Mable  Barrow  they  wth  Eliz.  Jacob  of  Limerick 
went  to  Bandon  &  S  kipper  een  &  Back  to  y«  Pro  v. 
Meeting. 

4mo  29.     John    Watson,    Chas    Howell,     to  the 

T>-./-4-  -  -     p  n  "n  r  (\  c>j-  •»  <y 

ymo  j^th.  Jonathn  Barron  Yorkshire  to  Band33 
West  &back  to  P.M. 

21.  John  Watson  to  ye  same  Province  Meeting. 
10100  4.    John  Fothergill,  Yorkshire. 

4f.  Mary  Barrow,  Mary  Crouson,  from  Lancashire. 
The  first  two  to  Band11  &  Skipp®  &  back  to  P.M. 

umo  25.  John  Fothergill  again  to  P.M.  &  took  ship 
for  Bristol. 

imo  1.    Richd  Sealy. 

8.  Nichs  Lock,  ye  1st  to  Bandn  &  ye  West  &  both  to 
the  Province  Meeting  afterwards. 

1701. 

2rao  16.  George  Depledge,  Nailer,  Yorkshire,  John 
Watson  of  Leinster  Province,  to  ye  Pro.  Me. 

4mo  27.  Christopher  Story  from  Cumberland  to 
Bandn  &  Skippn  &  back  to  Pro  v.  Meeting  at  Clonmell. 

5rao  3.  Mary  Pask  from  Suffolk.  Marg*  Jeffery  from 
Aberdeen  in  Scotland. 

6mo  14.  John  Kennedy  of  Cheshire  to  Band-,  Skip- 
pereen &  back  to  Province  Meeting. 

22.  John  Watson  to  same  Province  Meeting. 

8mo  22.  Thos  Wilson,  John  Barcroft,  to  Corke  & 
had  a  Meeting  at  Mallow. 

qtqo  20th,  Jam3  Dickenson  of  Cumberland  Patrick 
Henderson  from  Ulster  Province,  they  were  first  at  a 
Province  Meeting  in  Clonmell,  had  a  Meeting  at  Tallow 
You gh all  Middletown  &c. 

iomo  3.  Rachel  Ruttcr,  Kath"  Frost,  of  Yorkshire, 
staid  two  Meetings  at  Corke. 


i68    FRIENDS  TRAVELLING  IN  IRELAND 

8th.  Alice  Patchin  from  abf-  London  Anne  Anderson 
of  London  to  Band*  &  West. 

IOn>o  25,    John  Watson  to  Prov.  Meeting. 

1702. 

2rao  I2.    WillOT  Godfrey  from  Minehead. 
5rao  25.    Sarah  Baker  from  Dublin  to  Pro.  Meeting. 
■y™°  10.    George  Rook  came  from  ye  Prov.  Meets  at 
Clonmeli. 

II.    John  Watson. 

fTj0roo  ot.  John  Bowsteed  from  Cumberland,  Gershon 
Boate  Jum  of  Leinster,  y-  1^  went  to  BandG  &  ye  West, 
y*  last  returned  home. 

[ijinao  2d.  Isaac  Alexander  from  Cumberland  went 
Westward  w£h  John  Bowsteed  they  had  a  Meeting  going 
&  coming  at  Bandon  &  Back  to  the  Province  Meeting  at 
Corke. 

1.  Nichs  Lock,  Cka*  Howell,  came  hither  to  a 
3  days  Meeting  only. 

1703. 

F°  25.  John  Richardson  James  Bates  landed 
here  from  Barbadoes  (the  first  of  Yorkshire)  went  from 
Engd  in  the  Service  of  ye  Ministry  Ameraa  the  latter  born  in 
Virginia,  they  staid  ab*  18  days  were  at  a  Pro.  Mete  at 
Bandon  &  took  passage  hence  for  Bristol. 

a»°  i5-.    Richd  Sealy  from  Dublin  to  Pro.  Meeting. 

4  24.  John  Watson  here  4  days  before  ye  P.M.  at 
ClonrnelL 

6  14.  Rob1  Atkinson  from  Cumberland  accom- 
panied by  John  Btirnyeat  of  ye  same,  not  ye  John  Burn- 
yea.t  so  often  mentioned  before. 

18.  John  Salkild  accompany*  d  by  Jos  Skidmore  Lond-°. 

7mo  17.  W*  Edmondson,  George^Rooke,  to  the  Pro. 
M.  &  return d  by  way  of  Limerick,  Wm  was  very  weighty  (t 
tender  opening  things  to  the  States  &  conditions  of  Friends. 

8mo  20.  John  Salkild  after  Travelling  the  North 
came  again  to  the  Province  Meeting. 

t&**  6.  John  Eckroyd  of  Lancashire,  Lawrence 
King,  Yorkshire,  went  to  Bendon  Skip11  &  back  to  Pro.  M. 

4tJi.  Mary  Greenhow,  Bridget t  Story,  to  Pro.  M. 
then  Band"  <S:  retur2. 


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FRIENDS  TRAVELLING  IN  IRELAND  169 
1704. 

3mo  27.  Thos  Wilson  accompd  by  James  Hutchinson 
to  yc  Pro.  M.  y»  to  Youghal  Clonmcll  GasheH  Chaileville 
&  Limerick,  had  very  good  Service  in  this  Province. 

5mo  Ist.    John  Watson. 

12.    John  Chambers  of  Dublin  Schoolmastr  to  Band11. 

6m0  14.  Mary  Edmondson,  Lancashire,  Mary 
Stubbs,  Cumberland,  Came  a  week  before  ye  Pro.  M. 
went  to  Band"  &  Skippereen. 

ymo  ^o,  John  Watson  by  way  of  Clonm11,  Patk 
Henderson  by  way  61  Limk,  to  Pro.  M.  at  Corke 
lattr  went  to  Bandn. 

9mo  25.  John  Barer  oft  Accompd  by  Tobias  Pirn, 
went  to  Bandon. 

iomo  11.  Joseph  Glaister  Senr,  Jonathan  Osteell,  of 
Cumberland,  hither  &  no  further. 

imo  12.  Henry  Atkinson,  John  Urwen,  of  ab* 
Cumberland  went  to  BandD  before  ye  Pro.  Meets. 

D°.    John  Watson  to  ye  same  Province  Meeting. 

1705. 

31.    Samuel  Wilkinson  of  ab*  Antrim,  to  Bandon. 

2m0  0.  George  Rooke,  Richd  Sealy,  at  a  3d  days 
Meeting  &  went  to  Bandon  on  4th  day. 

f*»  6.  Thos  Wilson,  Benjan  Holmes,  of  Cumberland, 
went  to  Bandon  &  back  to  Pro.  Meeting. 

4mo  9.  Thos  Wilson  Jacob  Fuller  of  the  province  of 
Leinster,  to  ye  pro.  M.  at  Corke  thence  to  Bandon  & 
stay'd  two  Meetings  afterwards. 

5mo  15.  Chas  Howell  tho'  of  y«  pro.  came  purposely 
to  Visit  Cork  M. 

7mo  15.  Eliz  Gibson  from  England  Sarah  Baker 
of  Dublin. 

D°.  Joseph  Glaister  landed  at  Kinsale  from 
Virginia  came  this  day  to  Corke  &  all  three  staid  till  i-v- 
day.  ; 

12.    John  Watson  to  province  Meeting. 
9-^  24.    Jas  Dickenson  Jonath"  Burnyeat  ye  latter 
was  son  of  Jn°  Burnyeat  Early  mentioned  in  this  account 
they  were  at  y«  pro.  M.  &  had  a  Meets  at  feand*. 


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i2mo  16.  Jn°  Barcroft  Thos  Stephens  to  ye  pro. 
Meeting  at  Corke. 

imo  22d.  Jn°  Watson  Wm  Watson  they  came  a  week 
before  ve  prov.  M.  ye  latter  went  to  Bandon  &  were  both 
at  ye  P.M. 

1706. 

^mo  jgth,  Xhos  Wilson  Nichs  Gribble  had  a  Meeting 
at  Bandon  &  back  to  prov.  M>. 

5mo  22a.  Geo.  Rooke  Richd  Sealy  came  by  way  of 
Limerick  had  £  Meeting  at  Mallow  of  ye  towns  People  on 
a  iirst  day.  Sevu  jTrds  of  Corke  &  Elsewhere  went  there. 
They  also  went  to  Bandn  Castle  Salem  &  3*e  WTest  &  had 
three  Meetings  then  to  ye  P.  M.  at  Clonmell,  having  had 
in  their  way  a  Meeting  at  Capperquin  among  ye  People 
of  ye  Town. 

5mo  27.  Mary  Jay  (formerly)  Pask,  had  been  here 
1701,  She  had  Meetings  at  Bandon  Castle  Salem  & 
Skippn  &  returned  by  way  Youghali  to  p.  M.  at  Clonmell. 

7mo  14.  Joshua  Northall  to  Prov.  Meeting  at 
Corke. 

28.  Rebecca  Trafford  from  Cheshire  stay'd  sevL 
Meetings  here. 

geiQ  rib.  Patrick  Henderson,  stay'd  a  first  day,  went 
to  Bandon  &  Skippereen  &  in  his  return  had  sev11  Meeting5 
where  there  were  no  Friends  as  at  Capperquin  &  Tallagh 
from  thence  to  Mallow  &  so  to  Cork  to  the  Province 
Meeting. 

iG.  Thos  Rudd  Next  day  had  a  Meeting  at  Bandon, 
after  Meeting  he  spoke  in  the  street,  ye  day  following  had 
a  Meets  here  in  Corke.  Stayd  ye  Pro.  Meeting,  ye  3  day 
of  the  week  had  some  words  to  ye  people  in  ye  Street. 

omo  2ist„    John  Watson  with1  his  Wile  &  sevu  othr 
from  y«  County  of  Catherlagh,  to  ye  Marriage  of  John 
Lackey. 

1707. 

ymo  27.  John  Farmer  Wool-comber  from  Essex,  to 
Pro  Meeting  Bandon  &  Skippereen,  he  came  a  2d  time  soon 
after  8c  had  a  Meeting  at  Bandon  Enniskean,  Dun- 
manaway,  Bantry,  Bandon  again  &  one  Meeting  at 
Kinsale  &  y?  People  Moderate: 


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gmo  23.  John  Watson  who  had  been  here  3mo  21 
to  P.  M.  &:  to  Charleville  &  left  his  sickly  son  here  under 
Cure,  Now  came  again  to  the  Province  Meeting  &  took 
his  son  home  with  him. 

IOmo  3,  Richd  Scaly,  Geo.  Newland  Jum,  Next 
morning  to  Bandon,  ye  day  after  being  6th  days  Meeting 
at  Corke  &  stayd  till  first  day. 

111110  9.  Tho3  Potts  from  Pensilvenia  landed  at 
Kinsale  wlh  Eplir10  Jackson  of  the  same  &  another  jTrd, 
Mastr  of  a  Ship,  they  stay'd  10  days  &  took  their  Journey 
towards  Dublin,  ye  Ist  being  Publick  Visited  Meetings  in 
his  way. 

jxmo  29^.  Penticost  Teague,  having  landed  in 
Kerr}^  from  Pensilvania  being  also  Publick  came  to 
Cork[e]  2  days  before  the  Pro.  Meeting  &  stay 'd  till  he  got 
a  Passage  for  Bristol. 

Hmo  gist.  John  Bradley  of  Cheshire,  Joshua 
Northal  of  Leinst  Pro.  to  ye  Pro.  Meeting  only, 

i2mo  7.  John  Chambers  of  Dub*  ye  Ist  day  at 
Corke  &  so  to  Bandon. 

1708. 

im0  31.  John  Barcroft,  William  Watson,  to  ye  Pro  v. 
Meeting  only. 

31110  16.  Thos  Chalkley  of  Pensilvania  landed  about 
Clonikilty.  Richd  Gove  from  Jamaica  left  another  Pub. 
jfrd  wth  ye  Ship  named  R.  Gove  &  going  again  to  him  they 
Visited  Castle  Salem  &  Bandon  then  came  to  Corke 
stayd  3  days,  had  a  large  Meeting  in  ye  Meeting  house  of 
Corke  ye  day  Sarah  Ham  [an]  was  buried,  wch  was  to  the 
satisfaction  of  Jfrds  &  others,  Next,  day  to  Charleville 
Limk  &  Co.  Tip.  Returned  4mo  5th  to  Corke  P.  Meeting, 
then  to  Yough11  &  Waterford,  Purposing  to  Visit  Ulster  & 
Leinst  er. 

3mo  31.  Rob1  Robertson  of  Ulster  prov.  went  to 
-Bandon  &  back  to  the  Province  Meeting  here. 

6™°  8.  Penticost  Teague  before  mentioned,  Landed 
here  from  Bristol  in  his  own  Ship  Bound  for  Pensilvenia 
&  about  four  Families  of  Friends  of  Corke  went  along  wlh 
him  to  settle  there. 

6r"°  8&.  Sam1  Bounas  of  Somersetshire  Landed  here 
from  Minehead. 


i;-2    FRIENDS  'TRAVELLING  IN  IRELAND 


20.  Gilbert  Thompson  of  Lancashire  School  Mastr  of 
Sankey.  William  Fell  of  the  same ;  they  had  one  Meeting 
on  a  first  day  at  Corke  in  ye  forenoon  &  afternoon  then 
"went  to  Ban  don  the  2nd  day  &  so  on  to  Charleville  ccc. 

7°°  S.  Alexander  Seaton,  Wflfe  Henderson  of  the 
North,  next  day  to  Bandon  &  so  back  &  stay'd  6th  & 
Ist  days  at  Cork. 

grao  25th.  Sam1  Boimas  having  Visited  Friends 
Meetings  in  Leinster  &  Ulster  he  returned  hither  to  take 
shipping  for  England  &  in  the  next  days  Meeting  of  a  week 
day  under  a  more  than  ordinary  Concern  of  Spirit  spoke  in 
a  prophet ck  manner  concerning  the  states  of  many  under 
the  profession  of  Truth  and  in  particular  of  that  Meeting, 
that  such  as  were  not  Concerned  to  know  an  Inward 
Exercise  of  Mind  to  renew  y»  in  (spirit  wherein  the  True 
Worship  of  God  stands)  but  rests  in  an  Outward  Form 
of  ^Religion  &  coming  to  Meetings  the  day  would  come  as 
an  overflowing  Scourge  or  Blast  that  all  such  should  be 
Blown  away  as  Chaff  is  Blown  before  the  Wind. 

Samuel  Bownas  above  mentioned  having  Visited 
some  Meetings  of  this  Province  a  second  time  went  up  in 
ye  Country  again  as  far  as  Mount  Melick  &  so  to  Dublin 
to  ye  half  Y*s  Meeting  &  returned  to  Corke  this  day  [9™°  i&] 
waiting  for  a  Passage  to  go  into  England  in  w<&  time  he 
had  a  Meeting  at  Bandon  &  from  thence  being  accompany  "d 
by  Several  Friends  of  Bandon  &  Corke  (as  also  other 
friends  from  Corke  Meeting  him  next  day  at  Kinsale) 
had  a  Meeting  w*h  y«  Towns  People  there  (in  a  new  House 
Built  by  ffir*  but  not  quite  finished  in  the  Inside)  which 
was  on  the  26  of  ye  c,mo.  He  stay'd  afterwards  for  want  of 
a  fair  wind  till  the  4  or  5th  of  ye  11th  Month  Spending  his 
time  at  Corke  going  once  more  to  Bandon  and  Castle 
Salem. 

gmo  2j*'z.  Anne  Erwin  (formerly  Wilson)  of  Cumber- 
land...  Eleanor  Carlow'd  of  ye  Isle  of  Man. 

i1!K)  22-.  David  Palmer  an  Antient  man,  came  a 
little  before  yc  Province  Meeting,  went  to  Bandon  and 
stayd  yc  Pro  v.  Meeting  in  Corke. 

1709. 

2'no  j3&.  Aaron  Atkinson  a  second  time,  &  with 
him  Joshua  Barber  of  Yorkshire,  Blacksmith. 


FRIENDS  TRAVELLING  IN  IRELAND  173 


2™  1 8.  Tho5  Wilson  Nich5  Gribble  Stay'd  only 
yc  3d  days  Meeting, 

4mo  Ist.  Margaret  Minshall  her  Maiden  name  was 
Barrow,  who  had  been  here  in  ye  10th  mo  1700  now 
accompanyd  by  a  friend  of  Lurgan.  She  had  a  Meeting 
at  Bandon  &  stayd  here  ye  6th  &  Is*  days  after. 

John  Stoddart  Paul  Johnson  of  Dublin,  they 
went  as  far  as  Castle  Salem  came  from  thence  to  Ennis- 
kean  where  Eliz.  Jacob  was  to  have  a  Meeting  Nich5 
Harris  &  several  other  jfrds  being  wtb  her  who  had  been 
wth  her  at  several  Meetings  before  Viz1.  Baritfy, 
Skibbereen  and  Baltimore  at  wcb  last  place  Samuel 
Wilkinson  landed  from  Barbadoes  ye  25th  of  yc  4th 
month  (being  Ist  day  Morning  while  friends  were  there). 
After  ye  Meeting  at  Enniskean  they  all  rode  to  Bandon, 
next  was  an  appointed  Meeting  to  be  at  Kinsale  where 
all  the  aforesaid  Friends  were. 

41110  30.  Sam1  Wilkinson  made  some  stay  in  Corke 
before  passing  to  ye  North  about  Antrim.  y«  place  of  his 
outward  being. 

5mo  2d.  John  Watson  &  his  Wife  came  to  Visit  jYrd? 
of  this  Town  &  stayd  several  Meetings. 

ymc  gtb.  John  Watson  three  days  before  the  Prov. 
Meeting. 

8mo  22d.  John  Barcroft  Willm  Dover  &  Thos  Lightf oot, 
they  came  to  the  Prov.  Meeting  of  Corke  went  to  Bandon 
&  Castle  Salem  &  had  another  Meeting  at  Corke  before  they 
left  ye  town. 

IOmo  James    Dickenson,    Thomas   Wilgori,  & 

Joshua  Northall,  they  came  to  yi  Province  Meeting  at 
Corke  ye  latter  left  Corke  }<Te  day  following  the  2  first  stayd 
to  the  third  days  Meeting  &  on  4th  day  had  a  Meeting  at 
Ronayne's  Court  where  Ahr^  Abel  dwells  where  notice 
being  given  the  English  Neighbourhood  round  about  came 
&  appeard  very  sober  &  attentive  &  several  of  ym  were 
broken  &  tendered,  the  5th  day  they  had  a  Meeting  at 
Kinsale  there  was  not  so  great  appearance  nor  throng  of 
People  as  at  some  other  times,  but  they  were  more  orderly 
&  the  Meeting  more  satisfactory  to  friends,  the  6{h  day 
another  Meeting  at  Corke  several  of  the  town  being  there, 
it  held  about  5  hours  &  that  afternoon  a  young  man  whose 
name  was  John  Watson  being  to  be  Buried  they  had  Very 


17-1     FRIENDS  TRAVELLING  IN  IRELAND 


good  service  at  the  grave  till  it  grew  darkish,  next  morning 
they  departed  ye  City  to  go  to  Tipperary. 

i2mo  20tb.  Richd  Sealy  from  Dublin  next  da}r  to 
Bandon  then  to  Castle  Salem  &  back  to  the  6th  Days 
Meeting  at  Corke  &  staj'd'y*  Prov.  Meeting  two  days 
after. 

1710. 

2mo  8th.  John  Adam  of  Yorkshire  Husbandman, 
Joseph  Richardson  of  Lincolnshire,  they  were  both  very 
plain  men,  sound  8c  weighty  in  their  Testimony  they  fell 
in  Just  to  the  Province  Meeting. 

i6:u.  Joseph  Richardson  aforesaid  after  he  had 
been  at  y~e  3d  month  Meeting  in  Dublin  returnd  hither 
again  to  take  Shipping  for  Bristol. 

20th.  John  Haydock  of  Lancashire  (an  early  Minister 
of  Truth)  who  had  Visited  this  Nation  in  ye  years  1669, 
1 671  &  1676  came  now  ye  4th  time  to  ye  jo}'  &  comfort  of 
many  Brethren. 

4:ro  10th,  Eliz  Jacob  of  Limerick  her  coming  now  was 
not  to  a  Prcv.  Meeting  but  singly  to  Visit  Corke  Meeting 
on  the  first  day  of  the  week  being  moved  in  spirit  so  to  do. 
She  had  3  Meetings  in  ye  Meeting  house  that  day  tho  bat 
weak  in  Body  the  two  first  respected  friends  &  more 
particularly  ye  youth.  &  younger  people  calling  some  to 
Repentance  whilst  the  day  of  their  Visitation  lasted 
before  it  be  taken  from  them  ;  Others  to  more  watchful- 
ness &  Inward  walking  with  ye  Lord.  The  last  Meeting 
was  in  ye  Evening  where  man}-  People  came,  unto  whom 
she  was  drawn  forth  in  a  lively  Testimony  to  Preach  the 
Gospel  &  the  People,  were  more  than  Ordinary  Quiet  & 
gave  their  Attention. 

4mo  17th.  Chas  Howell  of  Clonmell,  Niclr3  Harris  of 
Chrwlevilie,  having  had  it  on  their  minds  to  have  a 
Meeting  at  Kinsale  came  the  Evening  before  to  Corke  & 
next  day  being  first  day  of  the  week  were  Accompanyd 
-  hy  a  pretty  number  of  Corke  Friends  &  some  went  ye 
day  before.  Some  also  came  from  Bandon,  they  bad 
two  Meetings  that  day  the  Latter  ye  fuller  &  the  said  Friend- 
were  Divinely  opened  in  both  &  the  service  that  day  seemed 
more  to  Friends  satisfaction  than  any  before  in  the  new 
Meeting  House  the  People  also  more  Orderly  8c  attentive 
than  at  some  other  times  Especially  towards  ye  Conclu- 


FRIENDS  TRAVELLING  IN  IRELAND  175 


sion  of  ye  latter  Meeting  the  Lords  power  being  eminently 
over  the  Meeting  &  the  People  were  Bowed  in  their  Minds 
under  it. 

gmo  jTth.  Rob4  Robertson,  Jonas  Shaw,  of  Ulster, 
Came  to  Visit  Jf rds  Meetings  but  went  no  farther  than 
Corke  Meeting. 

14th.  Patrick  Henderson  of  Ulster  Province,  he 
went  to  Skibbereen  had  a  Meeting  there  &  in  his  return 
at  Castle  Salem  &  Bandon. 

19th.  John  Fallowneld  two  days  before  }'e  Prov. 
Mfefing  afterwards  had  a  Meeting  at  Castle  Salem  Kinsale 
&  Ronayes  Court  also  in  Corke. 

nmo  20th.  Will01  Dover  to  a  first  days  Meeting  & 
returnd. 

27.  Paul  Johnson  of  Dublin  came  in  these  parts 
Visiting  jfrd3  &  fell  in  wtb  our  Pro.  Meeting  &  had  a  Meeting 
at  Bandon. 

John  Fallowfield  came  again  on  ye  7th  day  of  the  week 
Stayd  first  &  third  days  Meetings  then  went  in  company 

Abel  Strettle  (who  came  with  him  from  Dublin) 
Samuel  Randal  Joseph  Hoare  Abram  Abell  &  Thos  Wight 
&  had  a  Meeting  at  Bandon  on  the  4th  day  of  the  week, 
same  day  to  Castle  Salem  ye  5th  day  to  Baltimore  &  had 
a  Meeting  with  ye  people  of  the  Town  in  an  Inn  (who  were 
sober  &  attentive)  after  which  back  to  Skibbereen  & 
had  a  full  Meeting  there  the  People  seeming  to  be  affected, 
the  6th  day  to  Bantry  &  had  a  Meeting  in  an  Inn  yfl  room 
was  too  small  w<*  lessened  the  service  but  the  people 
were  generally  sober  &  well  affected  Except  some  Papists, 
the  7th  day  24  Miles  to  Bandon,  the  first  day  morning  being 
accompany 'd  wth  Bandon  Friends  went  to  Kinsale  where 
many  jfrt!s  of  Corke  came  &  had  2  Meetings  that  day 
ye  latter  very  large  many  of  ye  English  people  seemed  well 
satisfied  but  many  of  ye  Irish  Papists  were  troublesome, 
partly  for  want  of  room  &  about  the  Door  &  partly  their 
wonted  behaviour  as  when  they  heard  ye  Testimony  of 
Truth  against  their  superstitions  &  Idolatry,  but  ye 
Lords  power  was  Eminently  over  them  &  the  Testimony 
of  Truth  largely  held  forth  both  there  &  t lie  other  places 
before  Mentioned  the  next  day  he  had  a  Meeting  at 
Ronaynes  Court  where  were  Invited  a  pretty  large  appear- 
ance of  English  People  &  it  Ended  to  Friends  Satisfaction. 


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176     FRIENDS  TRAVELLING  IN  IRELAND 


1711. 

2100  jtK,  £]iz  Key  ah  American  Friend  of  West 
Jersey,  she  came  into  England  to  Visit  Friends  &  so  Into 
Ireland,  she  had  a  Meeting  first  at  Bandon  &  stay'd  ye 
fe&  &  first  days  Meetings  at  Corke,  a  true  Orthodox  preacher 
in  Gift  &  Conduct. 

18th.  Mary  Glover  her  Maiden  name  was  Edmundson 
(who  had  been  here  in  Truths  Service  in  ye  year 
1704)  now  accompany*  d  by  Phebe  Tilson  in  yc  like 
Service,  the  said  Mary  was  greatly  concerned  as 
also  was  Phebe  at  several  times  against  such  whose 
lives  &  conversations  were  disagreeable  to  Truth  & 
in  great  dread  &  Trembling  warned  them  to  repentance 
St  a  forsaking  the  Evil  of  their  ways,  they  had  a  Meeting 
at  Bandon  before  ye  Pro  v.  Meeting. 

3mo  3d.  John  Farmer  he  came  on  foot  he  had  no 
Companion  nor  no  Certificate  from  jtrds  in  England  When 
he  came  to  Dublin  &  accquainting  jfrd3  there  what  lay  on 
his  mind  wth  respect  to  his  having  Meetings  in  Connaught 
$  y(-  County  of  Kerry  where  no  jfrds  are  they  endeavoured 
to  diswade  him  from  it  but  he  proceeded  unti.ll  now  & 
here  also  was  admonished  for  his  not  taking  friends  Counsel 
&$,  he  said  he  had  Meetings  in  many  places  in  Connaught 
&  some  In  Kerry,  y*  in  Connaught  he  had  been  in  prison 
twice  &  threatened  other  times,  as  to  his  Service  (taking 
it  from  himself)  both  he  &  the  people  were  (as  he  said) 
pretty  well  satisfied. 

4mo  i£t.  WiM*  Watson  &  John  Loudon  both  of  the 
Province  of  Leinster  came  to  the  Pro  v.  Meeting  at  Corke 
&  on  j£  3d  day  of  ye  week  after  they  had  a  Meeting  at 
Kinsale  &  thb  not  so  large  as  some  others  there  had  been 
it  was  more  free  from  Loose  People  &  provd  as  much  to 
the  satisfaction  of  ffrds  as  any  Meeting  since  ye  Meeting 
House  was  Built,  from  thence  after  that  Meeting  they  rode 
through  to  Castle  Salem  next  M.orning  to  Baltimore  & 
had  a  Meeting  wtb  ye  Inhabitants  which  provd  to  reasonable 
content,  in  their  return  they  had  a  Meeting  at  Bandon 
&  another  on  y«  first  day  at  Corke. 

4^°  12.  Joshua  Northall  Ralph  Stephenson,  they  had 
a  Meeting  on  y«  5*  day  at  Bandon  &  6th  day  at  Corke. 

5r-0  14th.  Nichs  Lock  of  Leinster  Province,  came  to 
ys  Pro.  Meeting  at  Corke  &  Rcturn'd. 


FRIENDS  TRAVELLING  IN  IRELAND  177 


ftmo  I0th.  Will10  Edmundson  accompany'd  by  Rich* 
Guy  Visited  Bandon  Meeting  &  Corke  then  to  Youghall 
&  County  Tipperary  &so  tow4s  ye  pro.  Meeting  at  Water- 
ford  but  went  no  farther  than  Canick  being  taken  111  & 
from  thence  went  homewards, 

i5tb.  Anne  Chapman  a  Friend  of  Pensilvania,  she 
landed  in  England  &  Travelled  among  ffrd5  there  first 
and  having  had  a  Meeting  here  &  at  Bandon  Visited 
Youghall  &  ye  County  of  Tipperary  &  so  to  the  Pro  v. 
Meeting  at  Waterford. 

ism*  rst,  James  Hoskins  Daniel  Bell,  both 
young  Men  from  London  they  had  ver}r  good  service 
in  time  of  ye  Province  Meeting  &  went  to  Skibbereen 
Castle  Salem  &  Bandn  &  had.  Meetings  there,  &  in  their 
return  at  Kinsale  where  they  had  two  Meetings  on  a  first 
day  the  last  of  w*  more  full  than  the  first  &  ye  People 
generally  Orderl}r  &  the  Hearts  of  some  were  reached  ye 
said  friends  had  another  Meeting  on  ye  3d  day  at  Corke 
&  on  the  4tb  day  a  Meeting  wtb  the  young  People  of  Both 
Sexes. 

iomo  29.  Eliz  Jacob,  Chas  Howell,  being  at  the  pro. 
Meeting  here  proposed  to  have  a  Meeting  at.  Kinsale  on 
ye  first  day  of  the  11th  month  w0--  was  generally  approved 
of  &  many  other  friends  from  ye  pro  Meeting  accompanied 
them  the  service  whereof  tended  to  reasonable  satis- 
faction. 

i2no  9th.  Thomas  Simmons  of  the  County  of  Bucks 
England  a  servant  to  a  Husbandman  came  hither  in 
yc  Service  of  Truth  in  ye  time  of  \TC  prov.  Meeting  & 
Visited  Bandn  &  Castle  Salem  wrth  whom  jfrd*  were  well 
satisfied. 

29.  Anne  Chapman  Eliz.  Webb,  both  of  Pensii- 
vania ye  first  is  mentioned  before  who  going  into  England 
met  wth  Eliz  Webb  whose  service  lay  there  &  being  Clear 
they  took  Passage  at  Bristol  for  Pensilvenia  &  touching 
in  this  Harbour  spent  ye  yib  &  first  days  here  U>  the  Comfort 
of  Jfr*i  the  next  morning  were  accompanied  to  ye  Ship 
&  sailed  next  day — the  said  Elizabeth  was  a  Woman 
Extraordinarily  gifted  &  (it  may  be  said)  thoroughly 
furnished  for  the  work  of  the  Gospel  in  the  deep  &  weighty 
tilings  of  Gods  Kingdom  &  the  States  &  Conditions  of 
Friends  &  her  Conduct  &  Conversation  Agreeable. 


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jyS     FRIENDS  TRAVELLING  IN  IRELAND 


1711/12. 

jmo  jyih,  Marg1  Satterthwaite,  Mary  Dover,  Young 
Women  of  Lancashire,  came  to  Corke  in  the  Service  of 
Truth  some  days  before  the  province  Meeting  in  wch  time 
they  Visited  friends  of  Bandon  &  Castle  Salem  and  after 
the  Province  Meeting  Elizabeth  Allen  of  Corke  having 
departed  this  Life  they  stayd  on  account  of  her  Burial 
ye  Corpse  for  want  of  Sufficient  room  at  home  was  brought 
to  the  Meeting  House  for  the  gathering  of  the  People 
&  a  very  great  gathering  there  was  both  of  High  &low,  so 
that  Marg*  being  a  very  Accomplished  woman  in  her 
gift  had  a  large  opportunity  of  Publishing  Truth  among 
the  People  &  they  were  very  sober  &  attentive  suitable  to 
the  subject  matter  she  was  upon  &  as  ye  Occasion  required. 
The  morning  y*  she  &  her  Companion  was  to  depart  ye 
Town  it  was  wth  Margaret  to  say  to  Friends  who  came 
to  see  her,  that  since  their  sitting  &  waiting  together  it 
was  opened  to  her  great  times  of'Tryals  &  Exercises 
was  approaching  even  such  as  might  seperate  near  & 
dear  Relations  such  as  Husband  &  Wife  one  from  another, 
&  by  way  of  Warning  &  Exhortation  spoke  to  Friends  to 
be  prepared  for  it  that  when,  it  Comes  none  of  those  things 
should  startle  or  be  a  surprise  unto  them. 

1712. 

4TS1°  5lb.  Mary  Ellerton  of  Yorkshire  came  to  Corke  10 
clays  before  ye  Prov.  Meeting  wch  was  kept  at  Corke  & 
stayd  ye  6^  &  iirst  days  Meetings  then  Visited  Bandon 
&  ye  West  as  far  as  Skibbereen,  &  after  ye  prov.  Meeting 
she  had  a  Meeting  at  Kinsale  where  the  Lord's  power 
was  Eminently  known  &  many  of  the  People  were  Bowed 
in  their  Spirits  &  in  the  main  very  moderate  next  day  she 
had  a  Meeting  at.  Corke  among  the  young  people  which 
provd  of  great  service  She  being  very  sound  in  her 
Ministry  of  a  Searching  Testimony  &  Exemplary  withal. 

,jmo  o0lh!  Jonas  Shaw1  of  Ulster  Province  came  to 
Visit  Friends  here  Bandon  &  Castle  Salem. 

5U1CI  9th.  Lklia.  Lancaster  Jennet  Sutton  had  a 
6;h  cSc  first  days  Meetings  in  Corke  after  w&  Visited 
Band"  &  Castle  Salem  &  in  their  return  had  another 
Meeting  at  Corke  &  so  went  towards  Waterford  to  the 


FRIENDS  TRAVELLING  IN  IRELAND  179 

Prov,  Meeting.  Lydia  gave  warning  of  very  trying  times 
to  Come,  Exhorting  Jfrd5  to  faithfulness  &  preparation 
for  it. 

gmo  nth,  Willm  Henderson  of  the  North  came  a 
week  before  the  Prov.  Meeting  in  w<*  time  he  Visited 
Bandon  &  Castle  Salem  &  after  ye  Pro.  Meeting  had  a 
M'iag  at  Mallow. 

18.  John  Barcroft  Thos  Lightfoot  came  to  the 
Province  Meeting  here  &  Mosses  Pirn  wj*  ym,  after 
the  Pro  Meeting  they  had  a  Meeting  with  y£  young 
people  of  Corke  Meeting  Male  &  Female  Servants  & 
Children. 

9mo  29th.  Benjamin  Holme  a  3^  time  John  Burton 
of  Yorkshire,  they  fell  in  with  the  Prov.  Meeting 
at  Corke  after  which  the}^  had  a  Meeting  wth  f*  f&dng 
people  Male  &  Female  &  Visited  Bandon  Meeting  next 
day  they  had  a  Meeting  with  the  Country  people  at 
Ronaynes  Court  after  wch  Benjamin  parted  from  Jn°  to 
meet  Chas  Howell  at  Dungarvan  a  Meeting  being 
appointed  to  be  there,  Meanwhile  John  stayd  ye  first 
days  Meetings  at  Corke  &  so  to  meet  Benjamin  next  day 
at  Charleville. 

iomo  i6*h.  Elizabeth  Jacob,  who  had  been  in 
Scotland  8:  England  in  Truths  Service  some  8  months 
&  Better  landed  from  Wales  with  her  Companion  Abigail 
Craven  the  latter  being  publickly  concerned  in  Meetings 
whilst  she  was  in  England  they  stayd  a  few  dsfcys  &  went 
Homewards. 

iimo  10.  Mary  Truman  Katherine  Raile  of 
Wiltshire  came  to  the  Pro  Meeting  of  Corke  &  went  to 
the  first  da}7s  Meeting  at  Bandon  &  went  from  Cork  to 
England. 

26.  Joseph  Gill  John  Stephens  of  Dublin,  men 
lately  concerned  in  a  Publick  Testimony  came  to  Visit 
friends  of  this  Pro.  as  far  as  Castle  Salem. 

I2mo  2 1 A  Benjamin  Holme  Ralph  Stephenson, 
aff oresd,  staying  in  ye  nation  after  his  Companion  J.  Burton 
went  for  England  came  to  Cork  and  with  him  Ralph 
Stephenson  of  ye  Queens  County  &  stayd  the  Province 
Meeting  went  to  Castle  Salem  &  had  about  6  Meetings 
among  the  Worlds  People  particularly  at  Kinsale, 
Tallow,  Capperquin,  &  Dimgarvan. 


180  THE  TEACHING  OF  HANNAH  BARNARD 


1712/13. 

jmo  i.jth>  William  Watson  of  the  Prov.  of  Leinster 
came  to  Corke  to  the  Province  Meeting  &  was  at  ye 
Marriage  of  Samuel  Watson  of  Dublin  after  \\fCh  Visited 
friends  of  Bandon  &  had  a  Meeting  with  ye  young  people 
of  both  sexes  in  Cork. 

To  be  concluded. 


Ceac§tng  of  I>ann<x$  (§atmvb 

2  Month  16.  1 80 1. 

';4if'HE  Opinions  which  have  lately  been  disseminated  have  caused  much 
uneasiness,  having  divided  near  Connections  Families  &  Friends 
from  each  other;  and  tho'  these  Opinions  do  not  appear  to  increase, 

the)'  yet  cannot  but  be  deplored  in  consideration  of  the  hurtful  tendency 

of  them. 

A  remarkable  Circumstance  occurred  yesterday  week  at  the  Peel 
.  Meeting  [London],  in  the  Afternoon,  a  young  Man  who  had  been  intimate 
with  Hannah  Barnard,  and  had  pretty  greedily  swallowed  her  sentiments, 
stood  up,  and  in  an  awful  and  tender  Manner  expressed  the  uncommon 
ago>ny  of  Soul  he  had  lately  endured — that  he  had  been  tempted  to  doubt  of 
the  hrst  Parts  of  the  Scriptures ;  such  as  the  Miraculous  conception,  and  the 
Wars  of  the  Jews,  and  so  on  step  by  step,  till  both  the  old  and  new  Testa- 
ment were  doubted  ;  from  doubts  he  proceeded  to  disbelief,  untill  he 
became  a  thorough  Deist,  and  now  his  morality  began  to  be  tried,  the 
obligation  to  strict  uprightness,  which  the  Religion  of  Jesus  Christ  inspired 
mm  with,  seemed  gradually  dissipated  and  he  became  a  perfect  Atheist — 
here  wandering  as  in  the  dark,  every  Man's  hand  apparently  lifted  up 
against  him,  he  found  himself  a  Vagabond  upon  the  Earth.  Divine  good- 
ness Still  followed  him,  tho'  with  chastening,  he  was  repeatedly  warned 
to  expose  himself  in  that  public  manner  as  the  only  means  of  experiencing 
a  return  of  Divine  Favour,  and  as  an  atonement  for  his  thus  leaving  his 
Lord  Jv  Master,  and  had  he  not  thus  been  strengthened  to  express  himself, 
he  believed  he  could  not  have  existed  another  Day,  it  had.  been  sealed  upon 
his  Mind  that  at  the  Name  of  Jesus  every  knee  should  bow,  and  every 
-.  Tongue  confess. 

It  brought  a  great  Weight  and  solemnity  over  the  Meeting,  added  to 
this  striking  and  extraordinary  occurrence  another  Young  Man  at  the 
close  of  the  Meeting,  stood  up  <k  expressed  himself  much  to  the  same 
purpose,  with  some  very  awful  cautions  to  any  who  might  be  under 
sitnila r  Tern  ptations. 

Froia  a  MS.  found  amcag  the  papers  of  the  late  George  Penney,  J.  P. 
(1783-1853),  cf  Poole, 


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Cfk  Mmmd  (Bluing 

HE  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Friends  Historical  Society 
was  held  in  London  during  Y.M.  In  the  absence, 
through  illness,  of  the  President,  William  Frederick 
Miller,  William  C.  Braithwaite  took  the  chair  and 
delivered  an  address,  of  which  the  following  is  a 
summary  : — 

The  Friends  Historical  Societ}^  does  a  most  useful 
service  to  all  engaged  in  Friends'  literature.  Anyone 
who  attempts  historical  work  has  a  double  task  :  first, 
the  collection  of  material,  and  then  the  use  of  those 
materials  for  historical  purposes  ;  and  the  collection  of 
materials  is  sometimes  by  far  the  most  laborious  part 
of  a  man's  work.  There  is,  in  the  case  of  the  Society  of 
Friends,  such  an  immense  body  of  material  that  it  almost 
daunts  the  courage  of  those  attempting  to  explore  it 
exhaustively  ;  it  is,  therefore,  of  the  greatest,  service 
to  have  bodies  of  this  material  made  available  in  a 
reliable  shape,  so  that  the  man  who  is  doing  historical 
work  does  not  need  himself  to  spend  time  upon  ex?  ;?:" 
the  original  documents,  but  has  them  prepared  for  him 
in  a  form  in  which  he  can  make  use  of  them.  That 
quarrying  work,  as  A.  Neave  Brayshaw  has  well  called  it, 
provides  the  block  of  marble  out  of  which  you  try  to 
hew  your  more  complete  historical  statue,  and  justifies 
the  existence  and  munificent  maintenance  of  the  Friends 
Historical  Society.  Without  that  Society  the  historical 
work  now  being  done  could  not  have  been  done  at  all,  or 
would  have  been  done  with  additional  imperfection 
and  additional  slowness,  and,  therefore,  all  who  are 
associated  with  the  Society  may  feel  they  have  a  definite 
share  in  the  fuller  presentation  of  our  history  which  is 
now  taking  place. 

Our  old  records  are  probably  unique.  Many  of  us 
can  trace  back  our  ancestors  with  the  most  minute  exact- 
ness in  every  branch  right  to  the  origin  of  the  Society, 
and  we  may  even  find  lour  or  five  entries  in  Society 
documents  respecting  each,  separate  marriage.  But 
even  in  the  case  of  our  documents  the  tooth  of  time  has 
gnawed  away  a  good  deal,  and  the  negligence  of  Friends 

Vol.  x. — uo.  iSr 


THE  ANNUAL  MEETING 


has  perhaps  taken  away  more.  Friends  have  not  always 
been  zealous  custodians  of  their  records.  Thus  Margaret 
Fox's  Account  Book  was  rescued  a  hundred  5Tears  ago 
from  a  small  shop  in  the  outskirts  of  Lancaster  where 
its  leaves  were  being  used  by  the  owner  for  wrapping  up 
parcels  ;  we  have  heard  of  copies  of  Magna  Charta  being 
used,  in  that  way,  here  is  a  similar.-  case — a  man  buys 
a  piece  of  soap  and  wants  it  wrapped  up,  there  is  a  leaf 
of  Margaret  Fox's  Account  Book  handy,  and  in  such  mean 
uses  the  book  begins  softly  and  silently  to  vanish  away. 

The  Wilkinson-Story  separation  was  also  responsible 
for  some  destruction  of  Quaker  records.  At  the  beginning 
of  the  Wiltshire  Quarterly  Meeting  Minute  Book,  under 
date,  ist  of  2mo.  [April]  1678,  there  is  this  entry  : — 

Upon  some  occasion  of  disturbance  given,  it  was  several  times 
offered  and  desired  that  the  reason  of  our  coming  together  might  be 
minded,  and  the  work  and  service  of  the  meeting — which  is  to  serve 
the  Lord  and  His  people — might  be  proceeded  in.  And,  as  to  what 
occasioned  any  difference  or  stir  amongst  us,  it  was  earnestly  and  several 
times  desired  that  it  might  be  suspended  till  some  other  convenient  time 
to  avoid  ali  occasion  of  trouble  in  this  meeting,  that  so  the  work  of  the  day 
might  in  peace  have  been  carried  on.  But  it  would  not  be  assented  to  by 
several,  but  in  a  very  unfriendly  manner  went  away  from  the  meeting  to 
an  Inn  and  ketched  up  and  carried  away  the  Quarterly  Book  from  the 
meeting  with  them,  and  would  not  send  him  again  nor  return  themselves, 
although  some  Friends  went  unto  them  from  the  meeting  and  earnestly 
desired  it  of  them. 

In  this  way  the  old  Minute  Book  up  to  167S  was 
captured  by  the  Separatists.  The  result  is  that,  deposited 
at  Devonshire  House,  there  are  no  less  than  three 
copies  of  the  succeeding  Minutes  for  several  years,  for 
Wiltshire  Friends  were  very  anxious  that  the  act  of  capture 
should  not  be  repeated.  At  Bristol,  the  proceedings  that 
had  taken  place  in  Wiltshire  caused  great  perturbation. 
Their  principal  business  meeting  was  a  Two  Weeks  Meeting, 
which  fulfilled  in  itself  the  functions  of  a  Preparative,  a 
Monthly,  and  a  Quarterly  Meeting.  The  Minutes  for  the 
first  thirteen  years,  1667-1680,  have  been  copied  over 
in  a  clearly  written  duplicate  (Bristol  Records  :  C.184?, 
C.i),  and  at  the  beginning  of  this  duplicate  we  have  the 
following  entry,  furnished  me  by  A.  Neave  Brayshaw. 

Richard  Snead,  the  writer,  was  a  Mercer,  and  chief 
author   of  Ah  Exalted  Diotrephes  Reprehended   or  the 


THE  ANNUAL  MEETING 


183 


Spirit  of  Error  and  Envy  in  William  Rogers  against  the 
Truth,  1681. 

The  entry  runs  : — 

The  reason  why  this  book  was  made  was  a  fear  that  I  and  several 
other  Friends  had,  lest  when  that  unhappy  difference  was  among  Friends 
touching  the  two  Johns  [John  Wilkinson  and  John  Stor}r]  and  strongly 
supported  by  several  Friends  of  this  city  and  mostly  by  W:u  Rogers, 
(who  earnestly  endeavoured  for  a  separation,  not  only  in  discipline  but  also 
as  to  religious  meetings  on  account  of  worship  to  God,  he  urging  often  that 
we  differed  in  principle  as  well  as  in  some  particular  things  that  might 
be  deemed  circumstantial),  I  say  the  reason  of  making  this  book  was  a 
fear  lest  said  W,  R.  arid  others  with  him  would  have  taken  the  Mens 
Meeting  Book  from  us  here,  as  we  had  understood  that  some  of  the 
same  party  with  them  had  taken  away  Friends  Meeting  Book  in  Wiltshire, 
which  we  thus  judged  would  net  only  be  a  wrong-doing  in  them,  but  also 
be  a  great  loss  to  us  on  the  account  of  Truths  service.  And  this  was  the 
very  cause  and  reason  thereof.  John  Higgins  he  done  it,  and  I  paid  him, 
myself,  for  doing  thereof  near  40/-  in  the  year  1680.    Richard  Sneade. 

It  was  net  only  these  divisions  which  caused  difficulties 
about  Minute  Books,  for  sometimes  the  Friends,  in  whose 
custod}'  the  books  were,  lost  or  mislaid  them.  The  oldest 
Record  Book  in  Westmorland  Quarterly  Meeting  is  a 
thinnish  foolscap  volume  with  brown  leather  cover  and 
green  silk  ties.  It  contains  old  documents  of  considerable 
importance  with  regard  to  the  collections  that  were 
made  to  supply  the  "  Treasury  of  the  North  "  out  of 
which  the  expenses  of  itinerating  work  were  being  paid.1 
This  book  has  only  been  preserved  through  the  care  of 
Thomas  Rebanks,  a  Kendal  Friend  of  the  eighteenth 
century.  Inside  the  cover  is  written  "  Thomas  Rebanks 
meeting  with  this  book  in  town/' — that  is,  in  Kendal — 
<f  purchased  it  and  thought  proper  it  should  be  preserved 
amongst  our  Church  records,  so  gives  it  to  the  Meeting 
and  another  old  manuscript  I  met  with,  which  I  deposited 
in  the  Closet  at  Meeting  House,  which  had  also  been  lost 
if  I  had  not  taken  care  of  it."  The  other  old  MS.  is  a 
white  parchment  volume  which  contains  the  Accounts 
of  Westmorland  Friends  from  about  the  year  1658,  with 
Q.M.  and  M.M.  Minutes,  and  also  bears  a  note,  "  This 
being  mislaid,  if  care  had  not  been  taken,  would  have 
been  lost,  Thos.  Rebanks  therefore  took  care  to  bring  and 
deposit  it  with  other  Friends'  MSS." 

1  See  Beginnings  of  Quakerism,  pp.  3-/5,  32^  jaS,  337- 


V 


THE  ANNUAL  MEETING 


To  take  one  last  case.  In  my  own  Q.M.  of  Oxford- 
shire, our  oldest  Quarterly  Meeting  Minute  Book  is  lettered 
outside,  "  Orders  at  Quakers'  Meetings.  MS."  I  think 
we  may  be  quite  sure  that  was  not  put  on  by  Friends. 
Why  is  the  label  on  the  back  of  the  book  ?  The  reason  is 
this.  The  Book  was  in  the  hands  of  a  Friend  who  was 
disowned,  but  although  he  was  disowned,  the  Friend  kept 
the  book.  He  lived  for  many  years  afterwards,  and  got 
out  of  touch  with  the  Society,  and  when  he  died  Friends 
did  not  notice  the  fact  of  his  death.  His  effects  were  put 
up  for  sale  in  1809,  Friends  did  not  attend  the  sale,  and 
the  book  was  knocked  down  to  a  bookseller  at  Abingdon, 
who  sold  it  to  Dr.  Routh  (1755-1854),  the  President  of 
Magdalen  College,  Oxford.  Dr.  Routh  regarded  this 
book  with  a  great  deal  of  interest  and  at  last  showed 
it  to  some  Friends.  The  Oxfordshire  Quarterly  Meeting 
came  to  know  he  had  the  book,  and  suggested  that  he 
might  like  to  return  it.  He,  with  a  self-denial  which 
all  tortious  possessors  of  other  people's  books  will  appre- 
ciate, "  restored  it  to  the  proper  owners  in  1828.  In 
acknowledgment  of  this  gratuitous  restitution  he  after- 
wards received  from  the  Quarterly  Meeting  of  the  Society 
of  Friends  for  Berkshire  and  Oxfordshire,  ten  works, 
written  by  members  of  their  Society,  which  he  accepted 
with  respect  and  gratitude."  The  above  particulars 
are  entered  at  the  beginning  of  the  volume,  and  are  also 
referred  to  in  The  Journal,  v.  172. 

These  are  only  a  few  of  the  cases.  I  suspect  there 
are  sti'I  old  Minute  Books  in  private  hands  up  and  down 
the  Society  of  Friends,  which,  if  unearthed,  might  be  of 
considerable  value  to  the  Society. 

It  would  be  very  desirable  to  have  what  may  be  called 
a  Visitation  of  the  Quarterly  and  Monthly  Meetings  which 
would  result  in  a  catalogue  of  all  the  documents,  and  the 
question  might  be  asked  with  fruitful  results,  "  Are  there 
any  records  in  private  hands  which  should  be  brought 
into  the  Monthly  Meeting  ?  " 

William  C.  Braithwaite. 


They  have  a  right  to  censure  that  have  a  heart  to  help. 

William  Penn,  Reflections  and  Maxims,  i.  46. 


5«rew<ef  to  TdMkz  p*t& 


^f^-IDSLEY  forms  the  north-east  portion  of  the  Parish  or  Township  of 
XV  Smalley.  The  highway  from  Derby  to  Heanor  divides  this 
district  into  two  unequal  portions,  the  smaller  of  which — the 
north-eastern — formed  the  ancient  park  of  the  Abbots  of  Chester.  As 
parks  were  designed  for  the  preservation  of  animals  of  the  chase,  main 
roads  never  passed  through  them,  and  so  here  the  highway  will  be  found 
to  define  its  south-eastern  border. 

The  acute  turn  of  the  road  at  the  top  of  the  village  without  doubt 
marks  its  south-western  boundary,  and  the  locality  of  the  main  entrance 
is  ihdicated  by  "  Gate  "  farm,  now  [1905]  held  by  Mr.  David  Derbyshire. 

*  *  *  *  $ 

It  is  said  that  Queen  Elizabeth  gave  the  Manors  of  Smalley  and 
Kidsley  to  Henry  Sachcverell,  father  of  Jacinth  Sacheverell.  In  169S 
Robert  Sachevereli  owned  a  farm  at  Kidsley,  then  in  the  tenure  of  William 
Oidknowle,  at  the  rent  of  ^25  14s.  od.  per  [annum — undoubtedhr  the 
principal  farm.  As  at  that  time  land  would  let  for  about  five  shillings  per 
acre,  the  rent  would  indicate  a  farm  about  one  hundred  acres  in  extent. 
Kidsley  Park  Farm  about  fifty  years  ago  was  held  by  Mr.  Daniel  Smith, 
the  well-known  Quaker.  He  died  January  3rd,  1S63,  aged  94,  and 
was  the  last  of  the  Friends  who  occupied  that  place.  His  daughter, 
relict  of  the  late  Mr.  William  Davis,  who  died  May  7th,  1S63,2  became 
the  wife  of  Mr.  W.  H.  Barber,  B.A.,  of  Smalley.  She  was  a  most- 
accomplished  and  exemplary  lady  ;  the  following  "  Farewell  to  Kidsley  " 
is  from  her  pen.  I  shall  offer  no  apology  for  its  insertion.  Its  sentiments 
are  the  overflowings  of  a  large  and  sympathetic  heart  enfolding  every 
creature  of  God,  and  ever  living  as  under  the  shadow  of  His  wing  : — 

Farewell,  farewell,  thy  pathways  now  by  strangers'  feet  are  trod. 
And  other  hands  and  horses  strange  henceforth  shall  turn  thy  sod. 
Yes,  other  eyes  may  watch  the  buds  unfolding  in  the  Spring, 
And  other  children  round  that  hearth  the  coming  years  may  bring, 
But  mine  will  be  the  memory  of  cares  and  pleasures  there, 
Intenser — that  no  living  thing  in  some  of  them  can  share, — 
Commencing  with  the  loved  and  lost,  in  days  of  ioug  ago, 
When  one5  was  present  on  whose  head  Atlantic  breezes  blow. 
Long  years  ago  he  left  that  roof,  and  made  a  home  afar — 
For  that  is  really  only  "  home  "  where  life's  affections  are  ! 
How  many  thoughts  came  o'er  me,  for  old  Kidsley  has  "  a  name 
And  memory  " — in  the  hearts  of  some  not  now  unknown  to  fame. 

1  From  Charles  Kerry's  History  of  Smalley,  1905.  and  notes  by 
Edward  Watkins,  o£  Fritchley. 

2  According  to  the  Friends'  Registers,  Elizabeth  Smith  married 
Joseph  Davy,  15  vii.  1S30.  Joseph  Davy,  farmer,  of  Kidsley  Park,  died 
in  1856. 

3  Her  brother  William,  who  early  went  to  Amoiica,  and  became 
an  engineer  and  inventor  of  repute. 


c86        FAREWELL    TO    KIDS  LEY  PARK 


We  dreamt  not,  in  those  happy  times,  that  I  should  be  the  last 

Alone,  to  leave  ray  native  place — alone,  to  meet  the  blast ; — 

I  loved  each  nook  and  corner  there,  each  leaf  and  blade  of  grass, 

Each  moonlight  shadow  on  the  pond  I  loved  :   but  let  it  pass — 

For  mine  is  still  the  memory  that  only  death  can  mar  ; 

In  fancy  I  shall  see  it,  reflecting  every  star. 

The  graves  of  buried  quadrupeds,  affectionate  and  true, 

Will  have  the  olden  sunshine,  the  same  bright  morning  dew. 

But  the  birds  that,  sang  at  even  when  autumn  leaves  were  sere 

Will  miss  the  crumbs  they  used  to  get.  in  winters  long  and  drear. 

Will  the  poor  down- trodden  miss  me  ?    God  help  them  if  they  do  ! 

Some  manna  in  the  wilderness  His  goodness  guide  them  to  ! 

Farewell  to  those  who  love  me  !    I  shall  bear  them  still  in  mind, 

And  hope  to  be  remembered  by  those  I  left  behind : 

Do  not  forget  the  aged  man — though  another  fills  his  place — 

Another,  bearing  not  his  name,  nor  coming  of  his  race. 

His  creed  might  be  peculiar  ;  but  there  was  much  of  good 

Successors  will  not  imitate,  because  not  understood. 

Twojiundred  years  have  come  and  past  .since  George  Fox — first  of  Friends — 

Established  his  religion  there- — which  my  departure  ends. 

Then  be  it  so.    God  prosper  these  in  basket  and  in  store, 

And  make  them  happy  in  my  place — my  dwelling,  never  more  ! 

For  I  may  be  a  wanderer — no  roof  nor  hearthstone  mine,5 

May  light  that  cometh  from  above,  my  resting-place  define. 

Gloom  hovers  o'er  the  prospect  now,  but  He  who  was  my  friend 

In  the  midst  of  troubled  waters,  will  see  me  to  the  end. 

Eva. 

Derby,  June  6th,  1S63. 

4  George  Fox  was  at  Kidsley  Park  in  1650  and  1654.    See  Camb.  Jnl. 

>  She  had  lost  nearly  everything,  and  had  very  little  left,"  after  her 
father  and  all  were  dead."  It  would  look  as  though  she  were  temporarily 
staying  with  some  friends  in  Derby  as  a  sort  of  refugee. 


As  I  understand  it,  it  is  the  specific  mission  of  Quakerism  to 
propagate  a  Christianity  of  a  prophetic  apostolic  type,  a  Christianity  in 
which  the  Church  is  a  living  fellowship  of  disciples  at  work  for  the 
social  and  moral  ends  of  the  Kingdom  of  God.  But  the  Church  is  not 
simply,  in  the  Quaker  conception,  a  fellowship  of  disciples  at  work  for 
the  Kingdom  of  God  ;  it  is  such  a  fellowship  plus  Jesus  Christ  Himself, 
in  whose  Spirit,  the  Spirit  which  unites  them  one  to  another  and  to  Him, 
they  become  together  "  one  flock,  one  Shepherd." 

William  C.  ivPAiriiv/Anx,  B.A.,  LL.B.,  in  The  Message  and 
Mission  of  Quakerism,  1913,  Phila.  ed.,  p.  22. 


&.  (JR.  Igoag  anb  tfyt  &§o&i  at  (Urg 


j^INDLEY  MURRAY  HO  AG,  when  he  visited  Aberdeen,  expressed 
>uV  a  wish  to  visit  Ury,  and  Captain  Barclay  hospitably  invited  him 
to  stop  there  and  sleep  on  his  return  journey  to  the  South,  adding 
that  by  so  doing  he  would  see  the  place  both  by  daylight  and  by  candle- 
light. It  was  a  raw  afternoon  in  October  when  Hoag  started,  and  by  the 
time  the  conveyance  reached  Ury  he  felt  himself  thoroughly  chilled,  and 
requested  to  be  allowed  to  go  straight  to  his  room  and  have  a  basin  of 
gruel  in  bed.  The  next  morning,  at  breakfast,  they  were  standing  as 
people  do  before  the  fire,  when  Koag,  looking  at  an  old  portrait  of  the 
soldier  who  fought  '*  ankle  deep  in  LuUen:s  blood,"  remarked,  "  Ah,  there 
is  my  friend  of  last  night.  " 

"  Not  quite,"  said  Miss  Barclay,  "  that  is  an  ancestor  of  ours  who  has 
been  dead  nearly  200  years.  v 

"  Oh,"  said  Hoag,  "  he  looks  like  the  old  gentleman  who  came  into 
my  room  last  night." 

At  this  juncture  breakfast  was  served,  and  Ca.pt.ain  Barclay  seemed 
deep  in  thought.  At  last  he  said,  "  Will  you  please  teil  me,  Mr.  Hoag,  who 
it  was  that  came  into  your  room  last  night,  and  what  he  was  doing  there  ?  " 

"  Well,"  replied  Hoag,  "  I  was  just  going  off  to  sleep  when  there  was  a 
knock  at  the  door  and  a  sweet  old  gentleman  very  like  that  portrait  came 
into  the  room.  He  had  a  candle  in  his  hand  which  he  shaded  with  his 
other  hand,  and  he  apologized  for  disturbing  me.  He  then  went  round 
the  foot  of  the  bed  and  opened  a  cupboard  in  the  wall  at  the  other  side, 
taking  out  some  old  papers  which  looked  like  parchments." 

"  Did  ye  ever  hear  the  like  o'  that !  "  exclaimed  both  the  Barclays. 
"  Why,  there  is  no  cupboard  there." 

Captain  Barclay  remained  thinking,  and  when  breakfast  was  over 
he  said,  "  Mr.  Hoag,  will  you  please  do  me  the  favour  of  showing  me 
exactly  where  the  old  gentleman  found  the  papers  ?  " 

They  all  three  went  upstairs,  and  sure  enough  there  was  no  appear- 
ance of  any  cupboard,  but  the  wall  sounded  hollow.  Barclay  tore  off  the 
paper,  and  found  some  wooden  boarding.  This  he  broke  off  with  the 
poker,  and  an  iron  door  was  laid  bare.  He  tried  fruitlessly  to  open  this 
and  then  sent  for  a  blacksmith,  who  found  and  opened  a  safe  door — and  in 
the  safe  were  the  missing  deeds.  Miss  Barclay  ever  after  used  to  speak  of 
entertaining  angels  unawares  whenever  she  related  the  circumstances 
of  Lindley  Murray  Hoag's  visit  to  Ury. 

From  John  Wigham  Richardson,  1911,  pp.  37,  38,  under  date  1849. 


1738  Api.  11     John,  son  of  Thomas  Pain,  a  Quaker,  baptized. 

Parish  Register  of  Watij,  co.  York. 


it$t  &ptat$tmnjt  of  $ex>pw$itt  Igouse  in  t$t 
fet0$Umi§  Cenfurg 

YiiAKLY  Meeting,  1787  : — "The  following  Proposal  from  the 
Committed  on  the  Epistles  was  brought  in  &  being  twiee  read,  this 
Meeting  concurs  therewith  and  recommends  to  the  several  Quarterly 
B&eetirrgs  to  promote  a  Subscription  for  the  purpose  therein  mentioned 
when  the  Meeting  for  Sufferings  shall  make  application  to  them  for  it  vi.r. 

"  '  The  great  inconvenience  which  hath  attended  the  holding  the 
Yearly  Meeting  in  Die  present  Meeting  Houses  having  engaged  the 
Attention  of  this  Committee,  the  Yearly  Meeting  is  requested  to  consider 
if  it  may  not  be  proper  to  direct  the  Quarterly  Meeting  of  London  & 
Middlesex  to  provide  more  suitable  accommodations  and  to  recommend 
throughout  the  several  Quarterly  Meetings  a  liberal  contribution  for 
effecting  a  purpose  so  desirable  <Sr  necessary.'  " 

Y.M,  1790: — "Spacious  freehold  Premises  near  to  Devonshire 
House  are  offered  for  Sale  to  the  Committee  on  reasonable  terms,  That 
these  Premises  together  with  a  part  of  those  belonging  to  Devonshire 
House  affording  ample  scope  for  building  two  large  Meeting  Houses,  one 
for  the  service  of  the  Men  Friends  <fc  the  other  for  the  Women.  That  the 
purchase  of  the  Premises  <.v  the  building  of  the  Two  Houses  will 
probably  require  ^10,000.  Friends  in  London  have  not  been  able  to  find 
any  other  premises  so  well  adapted  to  the  occasions  of  the  Society." 

This  was  the  origin  of  the  present  Y.M.  buildings  at  Devonshire 
House. 


4  €yc  (plan  of  honour,  ©ccaeton'd  6g  t%t 
(po0*0cupf  of  {pen  0  Btttct 99 

FOUR-PAGE  quarto  pamphlet,  bearing  above  caption,  has 
recently  been  added  to  D.  It  consists  of  139  lines  of  verse 
without  author's  name  and  without  any  imprint. 
From  London,  on  October  20,  1688,  a  nameless  but  friendly  writer 
addressed  a  letter'  "To  the  Honourable  William  Penn,  Esq.  Proprietor 
and  Govcraour  of  Pennsylvania,"  relating  to  the  part  Penn  had  recently 
taken  in  public  affairs,  and  endeavouring  to  persuade  him  ''  to  labour 
after  a  Remedy  "  for  the  "  many  Imputations  which  are  cast  upon  your 
self)  together  With  some  of  their  evident  Consequences." 

Perm's  Answer,  dated  "  Teddington,  October  the  24th  1688" 
commences  with  the  words,  "  It  is  no  .v  above  twenty  years,  I  thank  God, 
that  I  have  not  been  very  solicitous  what  the  World  thought  of  me,"  and 

1  Punted  as  A  Letter  to  Mr.  Penn,  with  his  Answer*  London,  r68St  for 
An dre v.-  Wilson,  and  reprinted,  same  year,  for  Andrew  Sowk,  the  Wilson 
bemg  doubtless  a  mistake.    Tace  Sowle  brought  out  an  8vo  edition. 

Joseph  Besse,  in  his  life  of  Penn,  introductory  to  the  latter".-;  Works, 
States  that  this  letter  was  written  by  "  a  particular  Friend  of  his,  William 
Popple,  Secretary  to  xhc  PiantauoL-Oihce."  Besse  omits  Pefttt's 
Postscript. 

1S8 


/ 


CORKS  FOR  SALE 


189 


then  shortly  follows: — "The  Business  chiefly  insisted  upon,  is  my 
Popeperry,  and  endeavours  to  promote  it.  I  do  say  then,  and  that  with 
all  Sincerity,  that  I  am  not  only  no  Jesuit,  but  no  Papist.  ...  Is 
any  thing  more  foolish,  as  well  as  false,  than  that  because  I  am  often  at 
White-Hall,  therefore  I  must  be  Author  of  all  that  is  done  there  that  does 
not  please  abroad  ?  " 

The  Answer  is  only  sent  because  of  the  writer's  wish  "not  to  deny  a 
Friend  the  satisfaction  he  desires."    There  is  the  following  PS.  : — 

"  One  thing  in  reference  to  my  self  1  forgot  to  mention,  I  have  been 
by  some  people  with  great  art  rendred  powerful,  that  I  might  be  made 
guilty,  at  least  obnoxious;  which  hath  often  drawn  from  me  this 
Expression  to  my- Acquaintance  :  I  have  all  the  Inconvenience  of  a  man 
of  Power  0 rid  Interest,  but  nothing  of  the  reality  or  advantage  of  that 
Character.  One  thing  I  will  say,  and  end  ;  I  must  do  as  I  would  be  done 
by,  and  cannot  with  fine  Distinctions  or  popular  Humor,  absolve  my  seli 
from  that  Duty  ;  for,  I  thank  God,  I  am  what  I  was,  and  will  be  what  I 
am,  with  his  help,  let  the  World  say  what  it  will,  Farepel.  If". P." 

The  verses  headed  The  Man  of  Honour,  Occasion  d  by  the  Postscript 
of  Pen's  Letter,  refer,  in  all  probability,  to  the  above  Postscript.  The 
piece  begins  : — 

"  Not  all  the  Threats  or  Favours  of  a  Crown, 
A  Princes  whisper,  or  a  Tyrants  frown 
Can  aw  the  Spirit,  or  allure  the  Mind 
Of  him  who  to  strict  Honour  is  inclin'd  ; 
Tho  all  the  pomp  and  pleasure  that  does  wait  ^ 
On  publick  places  and  affairs  of  State,  Js 
Shou'd  fondly  court  him  to  be  base  and  great."  j 
Penn  does  not  appear  b}'  name  save  in  the  title. 


"  I2t,n  and  13th  day  of  ye  4th  Mo.  1678. 

"Memorand  yl  this  day  it  was  moved  in.  the  Meeting  whether  the 
Corkes  y£  is  not  vendable  here  should  be  ventured  to  Sea  at  the  Charge 
of  the  Quarterly  Meeting  :  To  wih  this  Quarterly  Meeting  doth  Assent 
and  leaves  it  to  Edw1  Nightingale  John  Taylor  and  John  Todd  to  doe  as 
they  see  meet  in  yl  Mattr. — Minute  Book  of  Yorks  Q.M.  1G69-1GS1. 

At  the  Q.M.  27  x.  1677  was  decided  to  raise  a  stock  whereby  the 
poor  Friends  who  were  prisoners  "  might  be  employed  in  some  labour 
to  their  subsistence."  It  was  reported  at  the  next  Q.M.  that  £149  5s.  Old. 
had  been  then  raised.  When  the  accounts  were  rendered  to  the  Q.M. 
25 i'lG  iv.  1079  there  had  been  expended  for  cork  and  a  cable  rope/57  ys.  7«:1.4 
for  teaching  prisoners  to  make  corks,  &c.,  £2  is.  oUl.,  and  for  ca-sh 
paid  the  prisoners  for  their  wages  for  cutting  cork  and  picking  oakum 
£1 8  14s.  1.0]  d.  Corks  and  oakum  had  been  sold  to  the  value  of  £%j  9s.  4  \  «i. 
and  there  remained  in  stock  £10  worth  of  oakum  and  cable  rope  and 
966  gross  of  corks  worth  (Note  by  W.  C.  Hkaithwaiie.) 


Corik  for  #a?e 


I 


Sfv&nbft  in  Currettf  Bikvatuw 


HE  annual  issue  of  The  Journal  of  Prison  Discipline  and  Philan- 
thropy, dated  March,  1913,  has  been  received  from  Jpshua  L. 
Baily,  of  Philadelphia.  Of  special  interest  to  Friends  is  the  article 
on  Roberts  Vaux,  by  J.  L.  Baily.  Roberts  Vaux  (1786-1S36)  was  one  of 
the  most  eminent  citizens  of  Pennsylvania,  and  one  of  its  leading 
philanthropists.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Frankford  Asylum  for 
the  Insane,  1S13,  and  was  also  a  strict  Friend,  "in  dress,  speech  and 
demeanor,"  and  "  steadfast  in  the  religious  convictions  inculcated  in  his 
youth."    His  picture  is  given  from  a  painting  by  Thomas  Inmari. 

A  beautifully  illustrated  volume  from  the  press  of  the  John  C. 
Winston  Company  of  Philadelphia  has  been  received  from  Allen  C.  Thomas, 
of  Haverford — A  Descriptive  Account  of  Friends'  Asylutn  for  the  Insane 
[at  Frankford,  Philadelphia]  from  its  Foundation.  .  .  .  Facts  and 
Events  in  its  History,  1S13-1913.  There  are  thirty-five  illustrations  and 
several  plans.  The  institution  was  founded  in  181 3  ;  4,421  patients 
have  been  admitted  since  the  opening,  an  almost  equal  number  of  men 
and  women  ;  of  the  discharges,  1,502  were  restored,  a.nd  503  nearly  so. 
Robert  H.  Chase,  M.D.,  has  been  Superintendent  since  1893. 


A  fourth  edition  of  A  Dynamic  Faith,  by  Dr.  Rufus  M.  Jones,  has 
been  published  (London  :  Headley,  *]\  by  5,  pp.  102,  is.  net). 


There  are  slight  though  eulogistic  references  to  Friends  in  Pax 
Pritannica.  A.  Study  of  the  History  of  British  Pacification,  by  H.  S. 
Perris,  M.A.  (London  and  Toronto  :  Sidgwick  &  Jackson,  8$  by  5-*, 
pp.  xvi.  4-  319,  5s.  net).  The  author  is  the  Secretary  of  the  British 
Committee  of  the  British- American  Peace  Centenary. 


Wilfred  Whitteri  ("  John  o'  London  ")  has  written  A  Londoner's 
London  (Loudon  :  Methuen,  7t  by  5,  pp.  329,  6s.).  In  association  with 
Cheapside.  the  Author  cites  the  story  of  David  Barclay  receiving  George  III. 
into  his  residence  io  view  the  Lord  Mayor's  Show  in  1761  (p.  2S3),  but 
David  Barclay  (16S2-1769),  was  a  linendraper,  not  a  banker  as  tbere 
stated.5 

The  Recollections  of  a  School  Attendance  Officer,  written  by  John 
Reeves,  a  London  Friend,  and  active  in  the  Ratcliff  district,  are 
very  interesting  and  show  vividly,  the  early  difficulties  of  work  under  the 
Education  Act  of  1870,  and  the  way  in  which  they  were  overcome 
(London  :  Stockwell,  7}.  by  5,  pp.  89.  with  portraits,  etc.,  2s.). 

1  There  are  various  accounts  of  this  visit  extant  in  print  and  MS, 
See,  especially,  Tritton,  the  Place  and  Family,  London,  1907. 

190 


FRIENDS  IN  CURRENT  LITERATURE  igi 


The  Bulletin  of  Friends'  Historical  Society  of  Philadelphia  has 
commenced  its  fifth  volume,  under  date  Fourth  Month,  1913,  With 
thirtyrfour  pages  of  valuable  information  respecting  Dr.  John  Fothergill, 
George  Durant  of  North  Carolina,  many  ministering  Friends  who  died  in 
Pennsylvania,  and  notes  of  recent  books  of  interest  to  Friends.  (Prof. 
Allen  C.  Thomas,  Haverfoid,  Pa.) 


A  sumptuous  volume — Genealogy  of  the  Descendants  of  John  Kirk, 
Bom  1660,  at  Alfrelon,  in  Derbyshire,  England.  Died  J705,  in  Darby 
Township,  Chester  {now  Delaware)  County,  Pennsylvania- — has  recently 
been  received  as  a  gift  to  D.  from  the  "  Kirk  Family  Committee,"  per 
Miranda  S.  Roberts  [nig  Kirk),  of  Doylestown,  Pa.  The  volume  was 
compiled  by  the  last-named  Friend  and  edited  by  Gilbert  Cope,  of  West 
Chester,  Pa.  It  contains  721  quarto  pages  of  genealogy  and  numerous 
portraits,  illustrations  of  meeting-houses,  family  residences,  etc.  In 
addition  to  the  patronymic  Kirk,  there  are  many  references  to  the 
Betts,  Cooper,  Fell,  Heston,  Paxson,  Scarborough,  Thomas,  Tomlinson, 
Twining,  and  Walton  families.2 


"  Among  the  Journals  of  the  early  Quakers,  and  especially  that  of 
George  Fox,  there  are  passages  which  charm  us  with  their  sincerity, 
quaintness,  and  pure  flame  of  enthusiasm,  but  these,  works  cannot  as  a 
whole  be  ranked  as  literature." 

So  writes  Caroline  F.  E.  Spurgeon,  lecturer  in  Bedford  College, 
London,  in  Mysticism  in  English  Literature  (Camb.  Univ.  Press,  is.  net). 


The  43rd  Annual  Report  of  the  Croydon  and  Saffron  W aider-  Old. 
Scholars'  Association,  1912  (138,  Bishopsgate,  E.C.),  is  out,  full  of  matter 
of  interest  to  alumni  of  the  School  and  others.  There  are  portraits  of 
James  Backhouse  Crosfield  (President),  T.  Edward  Taweil  and  W.  Russeil 
Fraylmg  (past  and  present  Secretaries),  and  Gurnell  C.  Green  (Editorial 
Secretary). 


In  Country  Life,  May  17th,  there  is  an  article  on  A  The  Forest  Ridge 
of  Sussex,"  referring  to  the  district  of  Lindfieid,  in  which  article  occur 
the  words,  "  There  were  also  in  the  same  district  men  of  another  stamp 
— the  Quakers — whoso  zeal  for  social  service  brought  into  being  the 
colony  of  New  England  at  Lindfreld,  which  may  be  called  the  first  Garden 
City."  The  social  colony  at  Lindheld  was  founded  by  William  Allen 
in  1825. 


In  the  January  number  of  the  Traeihodydd,  the  leading  Welsh 
quarterly,  the  first  article  appears  of  a  series  on  the  Friends  in  Wales, 
from  the  pen.  of  Mr.  J.  H.  Davie;;,  Registrar  of  the  University  College  of 
Wales,  Aberystwyth.    In  this  article  Mr.  Davies  endeavours  to  show 

3  As  illustrating  the  value  to  D.  of  such  fx>oics  of  family  history,  it 
may  be  stated  that  over  one  hundred  names  occurring  in  this  book  have 
been  added  to  the  card  catalogue. 


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that  the  earliest  visits  made  by  Friends  to  Wales  occurred  in  October. 
1653.  It  appears  that  John  ap  John's  visit  to  Swarthmoor  Hall  occurred 
in  July,  1653,  and  that  afterwards  he  returned  to  Wales  with  other 
Friends  and  held  a  series  of  meetings  in  Wrexham,  about  the  month  of 
October.  Mr.  Davies  also  refers  to  a  Friends'  burial  ground  on  the  farm  of 
Martcll  in  the  Parish  of  Puncheston,  North  Pembroke,  which  has  hitherto 
been  unidentified.  Occasional  meetings  were  held  at  Puncheston  as  late 
as  1 Sox. 

A  well-written  and  appreciative  character  sketch  of  "  George  Fox  as 
a  'Mystic  "  appeared  in  The  Harvard  Theological  Review,  for  January,  from 
the  pen  of  Josiah  Rpyce,  Ph.D.,  Litt.B.,  Professor  of  History  in  Harvard 
Vr  iversity,  Cambridge,  Mass.  A  curious  error  in  a  name  occurs — "  Gerard 
Amor,"  a  combination  of  Gerard  Roberts  and  Amor  Stoddart,  the  latter 
being  the  name  of  the  Friend  in  question. 

George  Fox  in  Scotland.  An  Appreciation  of  the  Society  of  Friends 
and  its  Founder,  by  the  sometime  minister  of  the  Tron  Kirk,  Edinburgh, 
Dugald  Butler,  D.D.  (Edinburgh  and  London  :  Oliphant,  7I  by  5]-. 
pp.  132.  2S.  6d.  net).  This  book  is  divided  into  two  parts — historical 
and  theological,  and  Dr.  Butler  is  happier  in  the  latter  than  in  the 
former.  The  title  would  lead  one  to  expect  a  full  history  of  Fox's  doings 
and  sayings  in  the  northern  kingdom,  but  there  is  comparatively  little 
of  this  even  in  Part  I.,  of  which  Part,  nine  pages  a,re  taken  up  with  a 
long  account  of  Fox's  interviews  in  London  with  Cromwell. 

Dr.  Butler's  references  to  Friends  in  the  latter  part  of  the  book  are 
kindly  and  appreciative — the  result  of  considerable  study  of  our  principles 
and  practices.    He  writes  : — • 

"  The  Quakers  form  a  return,  through  rediscovery,  to  the  life  of  the 
Apostolic  age,  and  as  a  Christian  Church  they  are  of  profound  significance. 
The  Quakers  were  practical  mystics,  grandly  heroic,  loyal  amid  suffering 
to  testimony,  not  flying  from  it.  .  .  .  They  testified  to  the  living, 
inspiring  God.  speaking  not  from  a  distant  heaven  or  a  remote  past,  but 
immediately  to  the  soul  and  its  condition  "  (p.  97),  and  again  :  "  The 
Quakers,  like  all  healthy  positive  mystics,  do  not  make  vision  the  end.  but 
the  beginning  of  life.  More  important  to  them  than  vision  is  obedience 
to  the  vision  "  (p.  10S). 

The  attention  of  the  reader  is  specially  directed  to  the  Appendix  to 
this  book,  which  contains  a  striking  instance  of  blessing  attending  the 
ministry  of  Deborah  Darby  and  Rebecca  Young,  during  their  visit  to 
Scotland  in  1S04. 


The  eagerly-awaited  life  of  Margaret  Fox  is  now  out — Margaret  Fox 
of  Swar/hnoor  Hall,  by  Helen  G.  Crosfieid,  wife  of  Hugh  T.  Crosfieid,  of 
Tadworth.  co.  Survey,  and.  daughter  of  William  Harvey,  of  Leeds 
(London  :  Headley,  9  by  6,  pp.  272.  33.  Gd.  net).  I  can  bear  witness  to 
the  great  amount  of  work  put  into  this  book,  and  I  am  sure  that  readers 
will  find  it  a  most  i:Un;  muting  life-history  of  the  mother  of  the  early 
Quaker  Church'.    Mother  and  daughters  arc  allowed  repeatedly  to  6J ■■' 


FRIENDS  IN  CURRENT  LITERATURE  193 


for  t  b  em  selves,  and  hence  we  have  a  vivid  picture  of  a  seventeenth 
century  family  of  good  position  and  earnest  religious  convictions.' 
Several  matters  are  treated  more  fully  in  Appendices,  and  the  book 
is  provided  with  a  Bibliography,  Genealogical  Chart,  and  Index. 
The  price  is  most  reasonable. 

On  page  216,  line  9  from  foot,  read  ten  years. 


Constable  &  Co.,  of  London,  have  published  at  15s.  net.  The  Life  of 
John  Bright,  written  by  George  M.  Trevelyan.  It  is  a  volume  of  4S0 
pages,  with  a  score  of  illustrations,  and  it  will,  doubtless,  have  a  very  wide 
circulation.  The  book  is  issued  with  the  authority  of  the  family  of  John 
Bright,  who  have  supplied  much  fresh  material. 


The  Minutes  of  the  Five  Years  Meeting  of  the  Friends  in  America. 
held  at  Indianapolis,  Ind.,  in  1912,  have  been  issued  in  a  volume  of  304 
pages  (Richmond,  Ind.,  Nicholson  Printing  &  Mfg.  Co.). 


Some  time  ago  R.  H.  Coats,  M.A.,  B.D.,  delivered  a  series  of 
lectures  at  Woodbrooke  on  the  principal  types  of  piety  which  have 
prevailed  in  England  since  the  Reformation.  These  lectures  have 
been  published  by  T.  &  T.  Clark,  of  Edinburgh,  under  the  title  of  2  ;  zs 
of  English  Piety,  the  types  being  the  Sacerdotal,  Evangelical  and 
Mystical.  The  Author  gives  Friends  no  place  in  the  section  devoted  to  the 
Evangelical  Type,  although  individual  Friends  are  named  in  connection 
therewith,  as  Elizabeth  Fry  (p.  101)  and  John  Bright  (p.  272).  Friends  are 
mentioned  here  and  there  in  the  chapter  on  the  Mystic,  but  their  work  in 
the  world  and  for  the  world  seems  to  be  largely  overlooked  in  tin's  book. 
We  read  (p.  226)  : — 

"  Mysticism  is  ill-adapted  for  the  organizing  of  religion  on  a 
public  scale,  for  states  and  nations.  Nor  can  it  publish  it  successfully 
among  the  masses,  or  impress  men  where  forms  and  institutions,  ritual  and 
ceremony,  are  required.  By  virtue  of  its  privacy,  its  subjective  and 
contemplative  nature,  it  tends  to  develop  into  quietism  and  to  become, 
as  with  the  Quakers,  the  religion  of  a  cult  or  select  few,  the  faith  of  an 
educated  and  refined  coterie,  whose  influence  is  nevertheless  out  of  all 
proportion  to  their  numbers." 

Indeed,  in  the  following  extract,  "  the  Quaker  "  is  used  as  a  term  to 
represent,  in  toto,  the  mystical  type  of  piety  (p.  89)  : — 

"  Wheicas  the  Romanist  relies  ultimately  on  the  utterances  of  the 
Pope,  and  the  Anglican  sacerdotalist  maintains  the  principle,  'The 
Church  to  teach,  the  Bible  to  confirm,'  and  the  Quaker  turns  from  all 
outward  authority  to  the  inner  voice,  the  Evangelical  rinds  his  determining 
authority  in  none  of  these,  but  in  God's  redeeming  act  in  the  person,  life, 
and  death  of  the  Lord  Christ    .  . 

The  sixth  Swarthmore  Lecture  was  delivered  the  evening  before  the 
opening  of 'London  Yearly  Meeting,  by  Joshua  Rowntree,  J. P.  (formerly 
M.P.),  of  Scarborough.  It  is  entitled  Social  Service  :  lis  Place  in  the  Sec.:- ty 
of  Friends  (Loudon  :  Ileadley,  7-I  by  5,  pp.  127,  rs  net),  and  is  a  most 


i94    FRIENDS  IN  CURRENT  LITERATURE 


valuable  summary  of  the  work  of  Friends  for  the  good  of  those  around 
them.  It  is  to  be  regretted  that  in  the  hurry  of  production  and 
printing,  a  few  notes  are  inaccurate.  Readers  would  do  well  to 
aJter  St-jbelin  into  SMhelin  (p.  I3n),  Memories  into  Memoirs  (p.  1711), 
Robert  Vaux  into  Roberts  Vaux  (p.  7611).  The  note  to  p.  104  makes  it 
appear  as  though  Edward  Burrough  was  the  author  of  The  Beginyiings  of 
Quakerism ! 


The  eleventh  supplement  to  The  Journal,  Extracts  from  State 
Papers  Relativg  to  Friends,  fourth  series,  1669  to  1672,  has  been  printed 
and  will  shortly  be  distributed  to  subscribers  to  the  Supplements.  It  will 
be  accompanied,  gratis,  with  a  binding-case  and  title-section  for  the  four 
red:*  of  Extracts.  Until  publication  the  price  for  this  Supplement,  etc.,  is 
3s.,  afterwards  to  be  raised  to  4s.  6d. 


A  Wayfarer's  Faith  is  the  title  of  a  recent  book  by  T.  Edmund 
Karvey,  M.P.  (London  :  Wells  Gardner,  7  by  4^,  pp.  156.  is.  6d.  net). 
The  object  of  the  book  is  thus  described  on  the  publishers'  ''jacket'' : — 

"  The  writer,  who  is  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  deals  with 
certain  elements  of  religious  life  in  which  all  forms  of  Christianity  share  : 
the  meaning  of  priesthood  in  its  widest  sense,  the  place  of  the  prophet 
in  the  Church,  the  age-long  struggle  between  the  genius  of  organization 
and  the  spirit  of  aspiration  and  revolt,  the  significance  of  sacraments  in 
human  life. 

"  The  concluding  chapters  make  an  appeal  for  a  fresh  development 
of  the  religious  spirit  to  build  up  new  centres  of  peace  and  social  healing 
such  as  the  monasteries  once  were  for  another  age,  finding  in  common  work 
and  common  worship  the  path  to  Christian  reunion.'" 


The  Yorkshire  1905  Committee  (Ernest  E.  Taylor,  Bannisdale, 
Maltoa)  has  issued  several  new  pamphlets — four  excerpts  from  J.  W. 
Graham's  "  Evolution  and  Empire,"  and  others  in  smaller  size. 


The  latest  novel  introducing  Friends  is  A  Living  Legacy,  by  Ruth 
Underwood  (Phila. :  Winston,  8  by  5},  pp.  438,  $1.35  net,  postage  extra). 
When  read,  further  notice  of  this  book  may  appear. 


M.  Ethel  Crawshaw,  an  assistant  Librarian  in  the  Reference  Library 
at  Devonshire  House,  London,  has  written  a  bright  little  account  of  the  life 
and  death  in  prison  of  Mary  Samm,  grand-daughter  of  William  Dewsbury, 
entitled  Prisons  of  Long  Ago.  A  Little  Girl  Visitor.  It  is  published  by  the 
ton  don  Friends'  Tract  Association,  at  4d.  per  dozen,  or  2s.  8d.  per  100. 
It  forms  No.  1  of  a  new  Children's  Series.  May  also  be  obtained  from 
Friends' Book  and  Tract  Committee,  144  East  20th  Street,  New  York  City. 


The  Glasgow  Herald,  of  June  26,  says,  "  It  is  a  remarkable  sign  of  the 
vitality  of  (Quakerism  that  five  books  dealing  with  the  movement  itself 
and  with  its  leaders  should  appear  within  a  few  days  of  each  other." 


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Then  follows  a  review,  about  a  column  long,  of  Dr.  Butler's  "  George  Fox 
in  Scotland,"  If.  G.  Crosfield's  "  Margaret  Fox,"  Joshua  Rowntree's 
Swarthmore  Lecture,  G.  K.  Lewis's  "  John  G.  Whit  tier,"  and  T.  E. 
Hiarvey's  "  Wayfarer's  Faith." 

In  the  same  newspaper  appears  a  Letter  from  our  Friend,  William  G. 
Smeal,  on  "  Sir  Walter  Scott's  Quaker  Ancestry." 


There  is  a  long  obituary  notice  of  Sir  Jonathan  Hutchinson  (1S2S- 
1913),  with,  9.  portrait,  in  The  British  Medical  Journal  of  June  28.  See 
also  The  Friend  (Lond.),  4th  July. 


In  part  87  of  the  Yorkshire  Archaeological  Journal,  just  issued,  pp.  270- 
2S6«  there  is  a  paper  by  Thomas  P.  Cooper,  of  York,  on  "  The  Mediaeval 
Highways,  Streets,  Open  Ditches,  and  Sanitary  Conditions  of  the  City  of 
York." 

Sir  Hickman  John  Godlee,  Bart.,  President  of  the  Royal  College 
of  Surgeons,  and  a  Member  of  a  London  Meeting,  has  presented  several 
of  his  works  to  D.  Flis  Himterian  Oration  has  been  recently  delivered,  and 
can  be  obtained  from  J.  Bale  &  Sons,  Great  Titchfield  Street,  London, 
W.  Sir  Rickman  Godlee  also  delivered  the  Foundation  Oration  of  the 
London  University  College  Union  Society  on  Lister  and  His  Work,  and 
this  has  been  printed  as  a  pamphlet. 

Of  Dr.  Butler's  "  George  Fox  in  Scotland  "  (see  p.  192),  Dr.  Hastings, 
editor  of  The  Expository  Times,  writes  :— 

"  These  lectures  breathe  understanding  of  Fox's  aim  and  burn  with 
sympathy  for  his  spirit.  The  book  will  have,  far-reaching  results.  It 
will  send  the  clergy  to  Fox's  '  Journal.'  And  the  sympathetic  discovery 
of  Fox's  Journal  is  an  epoch  in  a  man's  life,  sometimes  nothing  lefis  than 
life  from  the  dead." 


The  Unselfishness  of  God,  and  H010  I  Discovered  It,  by  Hannah  \Vhitall 
Smith,  published  in  1903,  has  been  translated  into  German  as  Die 
Sclbstlosigfieii  Gottes  und  wie  ich  sie  cntdec.kie,  with  a  preface  by  Dr.  C.  von 
Orelli  (Basel  :  Verlag  von  Kober  C.  F.  Spittlers  Nachfolger,  7 1  by  5,* 
pp.  22S).  The  same  publishing  office  has  issued  other  German  renderings 
from  H.W.S. 

Norman  Penney, 


If  we  men  are  to  be  effectually  reconciled  to  God,  and  saved  for  the 
service  of  man,  four  things  at  least  need  to  be  brought  home  to  us  by 
some  supreme  manifestation  :  the  moral  deformity  of  sin  ;  the 
Divine  holiness  that  condemns  it  ;  the  outreaching  love  of  God  that 
forgives  it  and  restores  us  ;  and  the  perfect  human  obedience  that  has 
been  and  can  be  rendered.  The  Cross  of  Christ  is  the  greatest  moral 
dynamic  the  world  has  ever  known,  because  it  satisfies  all  these  needs. 

From  The  Kingdom  and  the  Cross,  by  Edward  Grubb,  published  by 
the  London  Friends'  Tract  Association,  1913*  id. 


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Qtofe*  crnb  ©uerte* 

KEY  TO  ABBREVIATIONS 

D.~The  Reference  Library  of  Loudon  Y.M.,  at  Devonshire  House, 

Bishopsgate,  Loudon,  E.C. 
Camb.  Jnl,  ==Tke  Journal  oj  George  Fox,  published  by  the  Cambridge 

University  Press,  1.911. 
D.N .B. —The  Dictionary  oj  National  Biography. 

F.P.T.--"  The  First  Publishers  of  Truth,"  published  by  the  Friends 

Historical  Society,  1007. 
H.S.P.— The  Hi:  Lorical  Society  of  Pennsylvania,  located  at  1300  Locust 

Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  U.S.A. 


Abiah  Darby  (x.  79). —In  a 
record  of  "  Visits  of  publick 
Friends  to  Kelso  Meeting,"  com- 
menced in  1749,  by  Charles 
Ormston,  Clerk  of  the  Monthly 
Meeting  and  kept  up  by  his  suc- 
cessors until  1796,  Abiah  Darby 
is  twice  mentioned. 

"  17,59,  Sepr.  30.  By  Abiah 
Darby,  Ann  Summerland  & 
Andrew  Bradley  all  of  Cole- 
brookdaie." 

"  1774. 7. 14.  By  Abiah  Darby 
Colebrookdale  &  Frances  Dodgen, 
Leek  Staffordshire,  they  went 
from  this  to  Edr  &  Returned  by 
Berwick  and  Alenwick  at  which 
Last  two  places  they  had  Large 
Mittings  in  their  townhails  with 
the  inhabitants  &c." — William  F. 
Miller. 


Lancaster  Records  or  Leaves 
from  Local  History,  1801-1850. 
— Reprinted  from  the  Lancaster 
Gazette. — 

"Sept.  21 /i 3 j 8.  Mrs.  Fry  the 
Prison  Philanthropist,  accom- 
panied by  her  brother,  J.  J. 
Gurney,  Esq.,  of  EarlLam,  Norfolk, 
visited  our  Castle,  examined  every 
part,  of  it  minutely,  and  expressed 
much   satisfaction   cm   its   ply  11, 


I  and  the  cleanliness,  order,  and 
j  industry  on  the  men's  side  of  the 
prison,  observing  that  they  had 
j  seen  nothing  like  it  in  other  places  ; 
j  and  expressed  their  hopes  that 
'  the  women  would  be  equally  well 
j  employed  and  regulated  when  the 
j  new  buildings  were  ready  for  their 
j  reception." 

I  "  Sept.  23/1830.  The  railway 
between  Liverpool  and  Manchester 
j  was  opened  for  passengers  and  130 
I  persons  (chiefly  of  the  Society  of 
!  Friends  on  their  way  to  the  Quar- 
|  terly  Meeting  at  Manchester) 
\  were  conveyed  at  a  charge  of  7/- 
j  each.  The  journey  was  made  in 
'  one  hour  and  thirty  two  minutes. 
I  We  are  subsequently  informed 
j  '  that  the  inside  fare  between  Liver- 
pool and  Manchester  has  been 
j  fixed  at  6/6  and  the  outside  at 
!  3/6  '  and  that  the  time  on  the  road 
!    will  be  about  two  hours." 

"March    21/1833.     Mr.  John 
j    Dockray  (a  member  of  the  Society 
j    of  Friends)  was  elected  a  common 
councilman  of  the  borough.  Tb'5 
!    is  the  first  instance  of  a  dissenter 
'    being  admitted  into  that  body 
since  the  repeal  ct  tbc  Test  and 
Corporation  Act." 

"January  4/1836.  At  the  County 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES 


Sessions,  the  Earl  of  Burlington, 
Dr.  Whalley,  of  this  town  ;  and 
E.  Dawson,  Esq.  of  Aldcliffe  Hall 
qualified  as  magistrates  of  the 
county.  Dr.  Whalley  is  the  first 
member  of  the  Society  of  Friends 
who  qualified  for  the  commission 
of  the  peace  in  Lancashire." — 
Robert  Muschamp,  Radciiffe. 


Gilbert  Heath  cote  Rodes. — 
The  following  extract  from  the 
Book  of  Dentals,  etc.,  of  Dert^shire 
Q.M.  (after  1761,  Chesterfield 
M.M.)  has  been  supplied  by 
Edward  Watkins,  of  Fritchley. 
The  subject  of  the  extract  was 
originally  Gilbert  Heathcote,  the 
Rodes  being  added  on  his  coming 
into  possession  of  Barlborough 
Hall  on  the  death  of  his  great- 
uncle,  Sir  John  Rodes,  in  1743. 
He  died,  unmarried,  in  1768,  and 
was  succeeded  by  his  nephew, 
Cornelius  Heathcote  Rodes,  who 
died  in  1825,  aged  seventy. 

A  copy  of  a  minute  of  Chester- 
field Monthly  Meeting  19/nmo./ 
1761  : — 

"  In  answer  to  our  last  the 
Friends  appointed  brought  in  the 
following  lines  on  account  of 
Gilbert  Rodes  which  was  read 
and  approved  of,  so  are  here 
inserted  : 

"  Whereas  Gilbert  Rodes  of  Barl- 
borough Hall  who  was  religiously 
educated  by  his  Parents  Cornelius 
&  Elizabeth  Heathcote  deceased, 
for  want  of  keeping  to  the  measure 
of  Grace  given  him,  has  Jet  his  mind 
out  &  given  way  to  the  various 
fashions  cc  corruptions  of  the 
world  and  persisted  in  the  same 
for  a  Considerable  time,  notwith- 
standing the  pious  care  of  his 
Parents  &  tender  advice  of  his 
Friends  (who  have  visited  him  in  a 


Spirit  of  true  Love  in  order  to 
reclaim  him  from  the  many  lusts  he 
pursued  contrary  to  the  rules  of  our 
Christian  Society  of  which  he  was 
a  member)  which  he  has  not 
regarded,  therefore  this  Meeting 
appointed  two  Friends  to  speak 
to  him  who  brought  the  follow- 
ing report— That  he  said  he  had 
left  us,  implying  our  Society  & 
we  need  not  give  ourselves  any 
more  trouble  on  his  account  ; 
Therefore  we  enter  these  as  a 
Testimony  against  him,  denying 
his  being  of  our  Community,  unless 
he  comes  to  true  Godly  sorrow 
for  his  transgression,  which  he 
make  appear  by  a  change  of  Life 
<fc  Conversation,  then  we  shall 
rejoice  to  receive  him  into  unity 
and  fellowship  with  us," 


Quakers  and  Gild  Records. — 
Samuel  Holland  admitted  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Masons'  Company, 
London. 

1 7 1 7,  Oct.  3rd.  "  This  day 
Samuel  Holland  was  admitted 
into  the  Company  by  patrimony, 
and  being  a  Dissenter,  com m  only 
called  a  Quaker,  he  took  his 
solemn  affirmation ,(  (7'ke  Hole 
Craft  and  Fellowship  of  Masonyy, 
p.  252). 

He  was,  no  doubt,  the  son  of 
William"  Holland,  one  of  the 
Wardens  of  the  Masons'  Company 
in  1714,  and  Master  in  1717. 
William  Holland  is  recorded  as  one 
of  the  Assistants  of  the  Company, 
Oct.  29,  17,31,  and  a  Samuel 
Holland,  Sugar  Baker,  Hoxton, 
was  a  Liveryman  in  1764. 

a.d.  17 19.  In  this  year  the 
gild  of  Feltmakers,  Curriers,  and 
Armourers,  ordained  that  no 
Quaker  be  taken  apprentice,  on 
pain   of    forfeiting    £100  (The 


Vol.  V.  I2t. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES 


198 

Armorial  Bearings  of  the  Several 
Incorporated  Companies  of  New- 
castle on  Tyne,  p.  37). — T.  P. 
Cooper,  16,  Weotworth  Road, 
York. 


A  Lancashire  Quaker  Re- 
ferred TO  BY  MACAULAY. 
(>:.  113). — This  was  William 
Stout,  of  Lancaster,  whose  auto- 
biography was  published  in  part 
in  the  Manchester  Guardian,  and 
afterwards  in  extenso  in  a  volume 
edited  by  John  Harland  in  1851 
(see  Smith's  Catalogue  of  Friends' 
Books,  ii.  640).  The  original  manu- 
script autobiography  is  now  in  the 
Public  Reference  library,  Man- 
chester.— C.  W.  Sutton,  Reference 
Library,  Manchester. 

A  similar  reply  has  been  re- 
ceived from  Robert  Muschamp,  of 
Radcliffe. 


POULTNEY,     OF     MARYLAND. — - 

The  following  extract  from  the 
MS.  Journal  of  Richard  Champion 
Rawlins  (1819-1S98)  when  in 
U.S.A.  in  July,  1840,  has  been  sent 
by  his  son,  Frank  L.  Rawlins,  of 
Rhyl,  N.  Wales. 

"  Baltimore.  The  visit  which 
we  paid  to  some  '  friends  '  in  the 
country  on  this  occasion  will  add 
one  more  to  my  delightful  recollec- 
tions of  this  country. 

V  It  was  to  the  home  of  an  old 
lady  named  Poultney,  a  '  friend  ' 
and  not  that  in  name  only,  she 
lives  in  a  most  lovely  little  valley, 
surrounded  by  hills.  All  round 
her  dwelling  at  short  distances 
are  the  residences  of  her  sons,  who 
ail  live  however,  except  at  night, 
at  their  mother's. 

"  Her  eldest  son, Philip  Poultney, 
is  the  '  good  kind  Philip  '  of  the 
neighbourhood.  It  is  *  Uncle 
Philip  '  as  the  children  call  him, 


j    that   throws   them    apples  and 
j    takes  them  up  to  ride  in  his  old 
carriage.     *  Uncle    Philip  '  met 
with  an  accident  some  year  or  two 
!    ago,  and  is  now  a  cripple  for  life, 
i    but  he  has  seen  too  much  of  spirit 
stirring  adventure  in  the  far  west 
to  be  idle.    His  energy  is  indomit- 
able and  in  spite  of  his  physical 
maladies,  he  is  a  member  of  the 
Legislature,   and  often  goes  on 
political  expeditions  throughout 
the  State  of  Maryland. 

"  '  Uncle  Philip  '  had  acquired 
a  large  fortune  but  he  lost  every 
cent  by  the  failure  of  a  bank,  he 
had  then  a  fortune  of  $10,000 
left  him  with  which  he  bought  and 
freed  6  negroes  who  were  about 
being  sent  to  Arkansas.  This 
consumed  more  than  half  of  his 
legacy,  he  is  now  surrounded  by 
his  brothers  and  sisters,  each 
vieing  with  the  other  in  ministering 
to  his  wants  and  physical  necess- 
ities, '  Uncle  Philip  '  is  a  most 
delightful  man  to  converse  with, 
he  has  travelled  much  and  is 
shrewd  and  observing.  Not  the 
least  pleasing  of  my  American 
reminiscences,  will  be  found  that 
Sabbath  evening  with  this 
pleasant  family  on  a  Maryland 
farm." 


<♦  First  Publishers  of  Truth." 
- — The  Henley-on-Thames  account, 
pp.  21S,  219,  is  not  at  Devonshire 
House,  and  is  printed  from  the 
Oxfordshire  Q.M.  Minute  Book 
1671-1746,  the  book  that  was  at 
one  time  in  the  possession  of  Dr. 
Routh,  President  of  Magdalen 
College  (see  The  Journal,  v.  1  72). 

The  transcript  should  be  cor- 
rected at  the  end  of  the  first  para- 

|  graph  which  should  read,  "  And  I 
belivc  two  ore  three   then  soe 

!    1?  cached  y;  afterward  they  Came 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES 


199 


to  owne  Truth,  yett  sum  ware 
very  Rude  &  abucive  6c  throwing 
things  at  him  as  Gutts  they  Got 
from  3^  buchs."  The  last  word, 
is,  of  course,  a  contraction  for 
"  buchers," i.e.  "butchers." — Wm. 
C.  Braithwaite,  Banbury. 


Erratum.  —  For  LanghoYve, 
read  Langkerne,  poge  87.  The 
Editor's  mind  must  have  been 
dwelling  on  the  pleasant  visit  he 
paid  to  Laughornc,  Pa.,  in  1911  ! 


Thomas  and  Susanna  Brown, 
or  Va. — Can  any  reader  give 
a  short  biographical  sketch  of 
Thomas  Brown  and  his  wife 
Susanna,  of  Brownville,  referred 
to  on  page  31  of  volume  x.  of  The 
Journal?  Did  he  have  daughters 
Frances,  Catharine  and  Pallace, 
and  sons  John  and  S}^dney  ?  If 
not,  who  were  his  children,  and 
who  was  his  wife  Susanna  ?  " — 
H.  C.  Campion,  Jun.,  511  South 
Orange  Avenue,  Media,  Pa., 
U.S.A. 


Records  of  Wales. — Thomas 
O.  Lloyd,  of  The  Priory,  War- 
wick, has  sent  up  for  inspection 
and  safe-custody  in  D.  an  early 
Monthly  Meeting  book  connected 
with  Dolobran1  and  neighbour- 
hood, Montgomeryshire.  On  the 
vellum  cover  can  still  be  read 
"  The  Monthly  Meeting  Book 
Begining  the  30th  7':1(>  1690."  The 
first  leaf  in  the  book  records  the 
Meeting  held  "  2(y  of  the  2d  month 
1693,"  an<3  the  fest  deals  with  a 
Meeting  held  "  22  :  i2;ri0  171-4, " 
but  there  are  remains  of  other 
leaves  than  the  sixty  now  in  the 
book.  The  Meetings  were  usually 
held  at  Dolobran,  occasionally  at 
Cloddiau-Cccliion,  Covdcowrid, 

1  Pronounce  Dol'ob'ran. 


Llanwthin  and  Winsbury,  and  at 
times  at  the  houses  of  William 
Prinald,  John  Richards,  Margaret 
Thomas,  Sybel  Jones  and  William 
Reignalds.  In  most  cases  the 
names  of  Friends  present  are  on 
record,  and  among  them  we  notice 
those  of  Lloyd,  Da,vies,  Griffith, 
Ellis,  Kelsall,  Oliver,  Endon, 
Cadwallader,  and  Reynolds. 

The  business  was  not  great, 
but  it  included  the  passing  of 
marriages,  collection  of  money, 
the  establishment  of  Preparative 
Meetings,  as  at  Trefeglys  (17 10), 
and  the  care  of  grave-yards.  At 
times  we  read  "  No  Material  busi- 
ness at  this  Meet,"  and  again 
"  The  monthhy  meeting  for  the 
4th  m°  1700  :  being  appointed  at 
Llanwthin,  and  freinds  Neglect- 
ing to  com  there,  noe  business  was 
don."  For  students  of  Welsh 
Quakerism — and  such,  in  these 
days,  are  increasing — the  book 
contains  matter  of  great  value. 


Jacobs'  Biscuits  (x.  hi).— 
W.  F.  Bewley  writes  that  he  is  not 
the  head  of  the  firm,  though  by 
several  years  the  senior  managing 
director,  having  entered  the 
business  in  1864.  The  pamphlet 
in  question  was  written  by  Charles 
E.  Jacob. 

Dutch  Prisoners. — In  vol.  vii. 
some  extracts  were  printed  from  a 
memorandum  book  in  the  posses- 
sion of  Fox  Brothers  &  Co.,  Ltd., 
of  Wellington,  Som.  Joseph  H. 
Fox,  J. P.,  sends  the  following 
from  the  same  ancient  business- 
book  : — 

"  Account  with  George  Crokcr 
Fox,  of  Falmouth,  1781.  To  Cash 
Account,  George  Reynolds,  com- 
missary  of  Dutch  prisoners 
/G3.0.0." 


200 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES 


This  was  the  time  of  war  with  1 
Holland.  Prisoners  were  probably 
interncd  at  Falmouth.  The 
Wercs  had  a  large  business  connec- 
tion in  Holland,  which  explains 
this  then  large  donation  of  sixty 
guineas. 

Another  account  with  George 
Croker  Fox:  "Cash  to  Sister 
Mary  Fox  at  Wellington,  to  pay  for 
pillion — ^4.4 .0. 

Probably  George  Croker  and 
Mary  Fox  (his  wife — she  was 
daughter  of  Thomas  Were,  the 
senior  partner  in  T.  Were  &  Sons, 
serge-makers)  were  on  their  way 
to  or  from  Yearly  Meeting,  and 
purchased  the  pillion  at  Welling- 
ton, shewing  that  they  had  pro- 
bably ridden  from  Falmouth  to 
Wellington  if  not  all  the  way  to 
London  ! 


Women  Writers  (x.  03). — 
Correspondents  have  pointed  out 
that  there  were  other  considerable 
writers  than  those  mentioned, 
such  as  Priscilla  Wakefield  and 
Marj'-  Howitt.  The  writer  of  the 
article  had  in  view  those  Women 
Friends  only  who  wrote  on 
Friendly  or  other  directly  re- 
ligious topics. 

MS.  of  "  The  Journal  of 
John  Woolman." — We  are  in- 
formed by  Albert  J.  Edmunds,  of 
the  Historical  Society  of  Penn- 
sylvania, 1300  Locust  Street, 
Philadelphia,  that  "  the  autograph 
of  John  Woolman's  Journal  down 
to  1770"  has  been  presented  to 
that  Society.  "  It  contains  a 
distinct  prevision  of  the  Seven 
Years  War,  dated  2:no.  1754,  as 
well  as  other  psychical  matter 
deleted  by  the  Meeting." 


Timmins  Family. — Elizabeth 
Timmius,  said  to  have  been  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Society  of  Friends, 
married  a  John  Thompson  of 
Dover  (not  a  Friend)  about  the 
year  1S00.  She  is  described  as 
of  a  family  of  Hardware  Manu- 
facturers resident  "  in  the  Shires." 
Enquirer  will  be  glad  of  confirm- 
ation of  her  connection  with  the 
Society,  and  of  any  particulars 
relating  to  her  parentage,  family, 
and  ancestry. — W.  E.  Marsh, 
Marston,  Bromle}7,  Kent. 


Lindley  Murray  and  Eliza- 
beth Frank.— Is  anything  known 
of  Elizabeth  Frank  who  edited  the 
Memoirs  of  the  Life  and  Writings 
of  Lindley  Murray,  in  1827  ?  She 
was  during  the  latter  part  of 
Murray's  lifetime  a  resident  in 
York,  but  I  cannot  find  that  she 
was  in  membership  with  Friends. 
— T.  P,  Cooper,  16,  Wentworth 
Road,  York. 

Macaulay  and  Edinburgh 
Friends  (x.  ii). — On  reading  the 
interesting  Memorials  of  John 
Wigham  Richardson  (pp.  19.  20), 
I  find  that  my  boyish  recollections 
of  the  course  of  events  regarding 
Macaulay 's  connection  with  Edin- 
burgh are  incorrect.  Macaulay 
did  not  publish  his  History,  con- 
taining the  strictures  on  Friends, 
until  two  years  after  he  ceased 
to  be  member  for  Edinburgh  ; 
and  the  reason  why  John  Wigham 
(together  with  many  others  of 
1  Macaulay 's  supporters)  deserted 
him,  was,  especially,  his  favouring 
the  grant  of  public  funds  to  endow 
the  Roman  Catholic  College  of 
Maynooth.  There  is  little  doubt", 
however,  that  before  the  letter 
burning  in  ciden  t ,  John  Wigham  had 
read  the  History.— W\  F.  Miller. 


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Officers  for  tU  <2)car  19134014 

J.  Ernest  Grubb,  J. P. 
(past  tyxesibents  : 

1903-  4.    Thomas  Hodgkin,  D.C.L.,  Litt.D. 

1904-  5.    John  Stephenson  Rowntree,  J. P.  . 

1905-  6.    William  Charles  Braithwaite,  B.A.,  LL.B. 

1906-  7.    Francis  C.  Clayton,  J. P. 

1907-  8.    George  Vaux. 

1908-  9.    Joseph  Joshua  Green. 

1909-  10.  Frederick  G.  Cash. 

1910-  11.  A.  Neave  Brayshaw,  B.A.,  LL.B. 

1911-  12.  Amelia  Mott  Gummeee. 

1912-  13.  William  Frederick  Miller. 

James  Herbert  Midgley,  J. P.,  B.Sc. 

George  Benington. 

Isaac  Sharp,  B.A.       Norman  Penney,  F.S.A.,  F.R.Hist.S. 
&Sitox  of  "  Z§t  Journaf  "  ; 
Norman  Penney,  F.S.A",  F.R.Hist.S. 

fevtcdtivt  CommitUe  : 
Charlotte  Fell  Smith. 
Alfred  Kemp  Brown,  M.A.,  B.D. 
Charles  J.  Holdsworth,  J.P. 
A.  Neave  Brayshaw,  B.A.,  LL.B. 
Christopher  Bowly,  J.P. 
George  Baynes  Wetherall. 
Francis  C.  Clayton,  J.P. 
Emily  Manners. 
Ernest  E.  Taylor. 
William  C.  Braithwaite,  B.A.,  LL.B. 
James  Herbert  Midgley,  j.P.,  B.Sc. 
Ex- officio  : 

Frederick  Andrews,  B.A.  (Clerk  of  Meeting  for  Sufferings) 
Anna  L.  Littleboy  (Clerk  of  Library  and  Printing  Committee) 
Isaac  Sharp,  B.A.  (Recording  Clerk). 
Norman  Penney,  F.S.A.,  F.R.Hist.S,  (Librarian). 

Consultative- : 

George  Vaux,  1715  Arch  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Allen  C.  Thomas,  A.M.,  Haverford  College,  Pa. 

Albert  Cook  Myers,  M.L.,  Moylan,  Pa. 

Rufus  M.  Jones,  A.M.,  D.LitL,  Haverford  College,  Pa. 

William  L.  Pearson,  Ph.D.,  Friends'  University,  Wichita,  Kan. 


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OF  THE 

FRIENDS  HISTORICAL  SOCIETY 


Vol.  X.  No.  4  Tenth  Month  (Oct.),  1913 

THE  JOURNAL 


For  Table  of  Contents  see  page  tv» 


vo  oi  cover 


of  (pidmti,  pip 

/».  ^JHE  construction  of  a  life-history  from  scattered 
tM  ,    and  often  slender    data    is    an    interesting  if 


somewhat  exacting  task. 

We  have  attempted  such  a  task,  however, 
having  gathered  and  strung  together  what  information 
is  available  relative  to  a  Wiltshire  educationist  of  some 
note  in  his  da}/,  and  a  ministering  Friend  of  some 
experience  in  religious  work, 

Abiah  Darby,  in  her  Diary,  under  the  date  1762, 
writing  of  her  visit  to  Wiltshire,  gives  us  the  first  peep 
into  Thomas  Bennet's  early  history.  She  says,  <s  I 
think  he  said  he  came  from  Barbadoes  &  had  the  grounds 
of  his  convincement  at  Sankey  School."1  A  minute  of 
Wiltshire  Q.M.  (see  later)  states  that  Bennet's  father 
died  in  Jamaica,  c.  1722,  so  we  may  be  safe  in  associating 
his  earliest  days  with  the  West  Indies,  whence  he  was 
sent  to  England  for  education. 

The  school  at  Sankey  belonging  to  Penketh.  P.M., 
presided  over  by  Gilbert  Thompson  (165S-1719),  and  by 
his  son  of  the  same  name  (1700-1768),  was  noted  in  its 
day,  and  here  numerous  prominent  Friends  received  their 
education,  as  e.g.,  Edmund  Peekover  (d.  1767),  and  Dr. 
J.  C.  Lettsom  (d.  1815).  Thomas  Bennet  was  probably 
there  under  the  elder  Gilbert. 

3  See  pp.  79-92,  where  extracts  from  this  Diary  are  printed. 


I 


204     THOMAS  BEN  NET,  SCHOOLMASTER 


Following  his  school-days  in  the  North,  Thomas 
was  received  in  some  capacity  into  the  household  of 
Caleb  Dickinson,  of  Monks,  near  Corsham,  Wilts!  This 
is  stated  in  the  Q.M.  Minute.  Monies  House  is  situated 
one-and-a-half  miles  south  of  Corsham  and  its  inhabitants 
were  Friends  of  prominence.  Caleb  and  Sarah  Dickinson 
had  several  young  children  at  this  time,  and  Bennet 
may  have  been  their  tutor-companion.  In  1755,  other 
members  of  this  family,  Vickris  and  Elizabeth  Dickinson, 
were  living  at  Pickwick  Lodge. 

Meanwhile  Wiltshire  Friends  were  under  much 
exercise  respecting  a  school  for  their  children.  The 
opening  of  a  school  at  Corsham  was  proposed  in  1692, 
but  three  years  later  the  following  is  recorded  on  the 
Q.M.  Minute  :— 

As  to  promoting  a  schooie  in  this  county  .  .  ,'  jfriends  of 
Melksham  proposeth  the  boarding  of  children  at  7  pound  p  'annum  (and 
no  place  offering  so  commodious  as  yx)  its  agreed  that  a  School  be  there 
set  up  for  JTriends  Children  &  to  bee  made  worth  30  pound  to  the  Master 
for  one  year. 

Enquiries,  to  be  made  "  at  London  or  elsewhere," 
resulted  in  1696  in  the  appointment  of  "  John  Jeffry,2  of 
Hampton  psh.  in  Gloucestershire/'  In  1705,  Jefiry  was 
succeeded  by  John  Padley,  "  a  young  man  from  the 
north/'  but  how  long  the  school  was  continued,  we  know 
not.  Apparently  it  was  given  up,  for  in  1721,  we  read  in 
the  Q.M.  book:— 

1  11  mo.  1 72 1.  Charlcoat  &  Chippenham  Monthly  Meetings 
proposed  a  School  Master  for  ye  County  {viz{)  Thomas  Bennet  who  have 
Jived  with  Caleb  Dickinsons  for  some  time,  this  Meeting  approve  of  it 
&  advises  him  to  settle  at  Devizes  or  near  thereabouts. 

2  2  mo.  1722.  Thomas  Bennet  gave  accof  to  ye  Meeting  y*  he 
hath  concluded  to  begin  a  School  for  friends  at  Melksham.  next  week, 
&  y-  Meeting  desires  yc  friends  of  ys  County  to  encourage  him  all  yz  they  can 
&  send  as  many  Children  to  him  as  possible. 

25  mo.  1722.  This  Meeting  was  acquainted  yl  Tho  Bennet  did 
begin  a  School  at  Melksham  according  to  ye  9th  minute  of  last  meeting, 
but  his  Jlather  dying  lately  in  Jamaica  &  making  him  his  executor  &  finding 
y1  his  affairs  there  cannot  be  settled  without  his  presence,  he  is  now 
gon  for  Bristol  to  take  Ship  accordingly  with  design  to  return  to  Melkshaiv 
againe  as  soon  as  possible. 


2  The  name  Jeiferys  is  of  frequent  appearance  in  Wiltshire  record;). 


THOMAS  BEN  NET,  SCHOOLMASTER  205 


It  is  not  yet  apparent  in  what  year  Thomas  Bennet 
opened  school  at  Pickwick;  perhaps  he  did  not  settle 
at  Melksham  again  on  his  return  from  Jamaica.  His 

marriage  with  Mary  niay  have  taken  place  alter 

;  his  settlement  in  the  northern  parts  of  the  county.  The 
first  definite  date  connecting  him  with  Corsham  Meeting 
is  7  mo.  1725  :  — 

Joseph  Hull  informed  ye  [Quarterly]  Meeting  that  Tho:  Bennet 
is  now  threatned  with  a  prosecution  by  Sam1  Twiford  for  teaching  a 
Gramar  School,  this  Meeting  adviseth  him  to  apply  to  one  or  two  o£  yc 
country  Correspondents  in  order  for  them  to  write  to  ye  Meeting  for 
Sufferings  for  their  advice  &  assistance  when  he  shall  be  persecuted. 

But  it  turned  out  that  the  intended  prosecution  was 
I  for  some  reason  withdrawn. 

In  10  mo.  1725,  is  recorded  the  birth  to  Thomas 
and  Mary  Bennet,  of  Pickwick,  of  a  son,  named  John — 
perhaps  their  only  child.  The  Bennet  homestead  at 
Pickwick  became  a  centre  of  Quaker  influence  in  the 
district.  In  5  mo.  1726,  Chippenham  M.M.  was  held 
al  this  house,  and  later  the  Q.M.  ;  Bennet  also  fre- 
quently represented  his  Meeting  in  other  parts  of  the 
county.  From  1726,  the  minutes  of  his  MM.  were 
written  fair  in  his  beautiful  handwriting,  and  also  the 
minutes  of  the  Q.M.,  and  several  Books  of  Sufferings 
;  were  transcribed  by  him.  In  1729,  Chippenham  .M...M. 
I  records  :  — 

The  ace*  of  holding  the  Monthly  and  particular  Meetings  was 
recoihended  from  that  Meeting  to  this  Meeting  and  Thomas  Bennett  is 
desired  to  transcribe  the  Same  into  our  Book  and  a  copy  thereof  to  each 
particular  Meeting  :  And  this  Meeting  taking  into  Consideration  the 
Care  &.  Charges  of  Thomas  Bennett  in  finding  paper  Sec  for  this  Meeting 
have  therefore  voluntaryly  collected  one  Shilling  each  Meeting  Chippen- 
ham excepted  which  we  hope  will  be  answered  in  our  next  and  We  desire 
the  like  Collection  may  be  made  annually.    [There  were  five  Meetings*] 

In  1727  he  was  appointed,  with  other  Friends, 

To  meet  together  at  Devizes  and  to  collect  all  the  Yearly  Meeting 
Epistles  and  all  the  written  Minutes  sent  from  the  Yearly  Meeting  and 
make  a  book  thereof  together  with  on  Judex  thereunto,  to  be  always  bro* 
to  this  Meeting  for  ready  &  easy  recourse  to  the  mind  of  the  Yearly 
Meeting  on  any  point  that  may  come  before  this  Meeting. 

In  7  rno.  1727,  lie  attended  as  a  representative  the 
Circular  Y.M.  for  the  Seven  Western  Counties,  held  at 


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2o6     THOMAS  BEN  NET,  SCHOOLMASTER 


Marlborough,  and  in  the  following  year  he  was  at  Y.M. 
in  London. 

The  settlement  of  an  active  Friend  in  the  hamlet 
of  Pickwick  soon  aroused  interest  in  the  neighbourhood, 
and  in  7  mo.  1733 

Thomas  Bennett  sent  a  proposal  of  holding  an  Evening  Meeting 
according  to  discretion  or  as  occasion  serves  on  first  days  at  his  houstr 
and  withal  desired  the  concurrence  Consent  &  approbation  of  this 
.  i.;ng  which  is  readily  approved  of  by  this  Meeting  hoping  it  may  be  of 
service. 

Next  year  Corsham  reports  that  "  there  seems  a 
Great  openness  amongst  our  Neighbours  who  frequently 
attend  the  evening  meetings  held  at  times  at  Pickwick." 
Presumably  Thomas  took  his  scholars  to  meeting  at 
Corsham  on  First-day  mornings,  a  distance  of  about 
a  mile. 

The  School  also  was  reported  in  1734  as  "  a  very 
good  Boarding  School  for  Friends'  children."  There 
was  trouble,  however,  with  the  teaching  staff.  In  1734 
the  M.M.  records  that  Thomas  Bennet's  apprentice, 
William  Leigh,  "  hath  clandestinely  married  Sarah  dauter 
of  Anthony  Lawrence,  of  Brinkworth,  by  a  Priest,"  and 
only  after  William  had  twice  expressed  contrition  was 
the  "  satisfaction  "  of  the  M.M.  expressed.  A  few 
months  later,  Jonas  Binns,  perhaps  another  assistant 
teacher,  removed  from  the  district,  but  Friends  could  not 
give  him  a  clear  certificate  as  to  conduct  : — 

For  the  most  part  he  walked  orderly  but  can't  say  that  it  was  so 
wholly  &  altogether  the  indiscretion  of  youth  prevailing  in  some  degree 
to  his  disadvantage  &  our  sorrow,  which  he  has  acknowledged  in  a  Letter 
sent  to  his  former  Master  Thomas  Bennett. 

The  exigencies  of  scholastic  life  did  not  prevent  om 
Friend  from  travelling  in  the  service  of  Truth,  for  about 
this  time,  1736, 

Thos.  Bennett  requested  of  this  Meeting  a  few  lines  by  way  oi 
Certificate  in  his  Journeys  to  and  from  London  which  this  Meeting  consents 
to  and  is  as  follows  (vizr) 

to  friends  of  the  Morning  Meeting  in  London  or  elsewhere. 
Dear  /friends, 

Our  well  beloved  /friend  Thomas  Bennett  Member  of  this  Meeting 
having  acquainted  us  with  his  Jntention  of  Attending  the  Ensuing 
Yearly  Meeting  in  London,  and  desiring  a  Certificate  from  this  Meeting 


THOMAS  BENNET,  SCHOOLMASTER  207 


We  think  proper  to  signifie  on  his  behalf  that  he  is  in  good  Unity  with 
ns  both  as  a  Member  and  Minister  and  bis  Gift  and  Labour  of  Love 
well  received  amongst  us  surely  belciving  his  Life  and  Conversation 
answerable  to  his  Doctrine  and  as  such  we  recomend  him  to  you, 
desiring  his  Growth  and  prosperity  in  the  blessed  Truth  in  the  salutation 
of  which  we  remain  Your  friends  &  Brethren — 
Sign'd  in  Sc  on  behalf  of 
our  sd  Meeting. 

The  receipt  of  this  certificate  was  entered  011  the 
books  of  the  Morning  Meeting  in  London,  and  the  Friend 
concerned  thus  liberated  for  religious  service  as  an 
^Pj>io  vca  i.xixiibLcr. 

Though  residing  somewhat  aside  from  the  main 
courses  of  life  and  activity,  Thomas  Bennet  was  in  written 
communication  with  Friends  more  centrally  situated. 
The  following  letter  to  Joshua  Toft  (c.  1689-1769)  is  doubt- 
less --onl y  a  specimen  of  man}'  such  from  his  pen  : — 3 

Pickwick  the  22nd  lo/rao.,  1732. 

Dear  and  Worthy  Friend  ! 

Thy  kind  favour  of  6th  Jnst :  came  to  hand  the  17th  which  as  it  was 
■unexpected  &  not  look'd  for,  Considering  the  great  difference,  and 
inequality  there  is  between  us,  in  respect  to  our  Stations  in  the  Church, 
both  as  Members  and  Ministers,  so  is  it  the  more  acceptable  :  and  calls 
for  my  particular  acknowledgments,  in  that  thy  Condescension  reaches 
to  one  of  the  least  and  meanest  of  the  thousands  of  Israel ;  and  is  no  less 
than  the  Effect  of  a  measure  of  that  divine  Love  that  the  Father  of 
mercies  has  plentifully  shed  abroad  in  thy  heart,  in  order  to  invite  and 
encourage  others  to  a  Constant  perseverance,  in  those  things  that  are 
holy,  just  and  pure  and  y*  make  for  their  peace  here  ;.  and  eternal  Solace 
hereafter  if  truly  minded  :  And  tho'  the  Gift  &  m  easure  of  Grace  bestowed 
on  some  may  be  but  small,  and  as  it  were  only  one  Talent,  yet  faithful- 
ness and  obedience  to  the  measure  ree'd,  will  certainly  entitle  such  Souls 
to  that  welcome  Sentence  at  last  of  well  done,  good  and  ffaithfull 
Servants,  you  have  been  /Faithful  over  a  few  things  you  shall  be  rulers 
over  many  tilings  :  Enter  you  into  the  joy  of  your  Lord  ;  And  it  is  by  true 
obedience,  as  J  take  it,  that  many  of  our  Worthy  Friends,  some  being 
entered  into  their  rest,  and  others  still  remaining  among  us,  have  arisen 
from  small  beginnings,  to  be  fixed  Starrs  in  the  firmament  of  Glory  and  as 
Way-marks  to  poor  Travellers,  in  their  Spiritual  progress,  thro'  this  Vale 
of  Tears,  Sorrows,  afflictions  and  excercises,  to  the  heavenly  Canaan  and 
Land  of  rest ;  and  as  tender  (fathers  and  Jnstrumemts  in  the  hand  of 
God,  to  encourage,  Strengthen  and  Lend  an  hand  of  help  to  the  distressed 
&  bowed  down  ones,  and  to  such  as  go  mourning  on  their  way,  by  Example 
first  &  then  by  precepts,  in  Exhortations  and  Doctrine,  in  order  that  such 
may  be  buildcd  up  in  the  most  holy  faith  :    Such  helps  are  very  desii- 


3  From  the  original  in  D.    (OosfieW  MSS.) 


2oS     THOMAS  BEN  NET,  SCHOOLMASTER 


able,  and  what  J  have  been,  in  my  measure,  favoured  with  at  Times,  when 
in  a  low  and  suffering  State,  and  have  been  as  blood  to  my  Veins,  marrow 
to  my  bones  and  afforded  Life  to  my  Languishing  Soul.  But  on  the 
Contrary,  where  disobedience  creeps  in,  thro'  giving  way  to  Grandeur  & 
Ambition,  and  taking  the  jewels  of  the  Lord  and  decking  self  therewith, 
then  it  is  that  such  are  Stumbling  blocks  in  the  way  of  Sober  Enquirers, 
and  as  way-marks  that  have  lost  their  jnscriptioris,  and  unlikely  to  guide 
Travellers  aright  :  This  has  been  the  case  with  some  among  us  to  the 
great  grief  of  the  honest  hearted.  And  may  all  such,  who  are  now  as 
Silver  Trumpets  in  the  hand  of  the  great  Trumpeter,  who  have  been  and 
are  still,  at  times,  favoured  with  an  Extraordinary  measure  of  the  divine 
Jncomes  of  Life  to  the  admimstring  Suitably  to  the  States  of  those 
present,  where-ever  their  Lotts  are  cast,  viz1  Bread  to  whom  Bread  is  due, 
ana  the  rod  to  whom  the  rod  is  due,  be  truly  careful,  and  humbly  watch- 
ful to  defeat  the  Enemy  of  their  Souls  peace,  thro'  the  divine  Assistance 
in  all  his  Attacks  Assaults  and  Allurements,  of  what  kind  soever  they 
may  be,  and  keep  in  mind  the  old  proverb  :  Fcelix  quern  faciunt  aliena 
pericula  cautum*  is  what  j  am  in  earnest  for  :  J,  who  am  as  a  Mite 
in  the  Treasury,  am,  at  times,  concerned  in  Secret  Supplications  and 
Breathings  to  the  Lord  of  the  harvest,  that  he  would,  not  only  send  forth 
and  Qualifie  more  Labourers  in  his  Gospel  work  and  Service,  but  also 
preserve,  protect  and  uphold  those  his  jfaithfu!  ministers,  whom  he  has 
already  qualified,  and  sent  forth  and  keep  'em  humble  and  low  in  their 
own  Esteem  whatever  Encomiums  others  may  be  pleased  to  give  them  : 
Surely  the  more  humble  the  Creature  is,  the  more  he  sees  himself  as  he 
really  is  (viz1)  weak  and  frail,  and  the  more  he  sees  his  own  Weakness 
and  frailty  the  more  ardent  will  his  application  be  to  the  Fountain 
from  whence  Strength  comes :  For  (as  thou  truly  observes  that  '  We  have 
great  Cause  to  be  humbly  thankfull  that  in  these  Easie,  yet  dangerous 
Times,  a  remnant  can  set  to  his  Seal  that  Truth  changes  not  ')  there's 
the  same  power,  Virtue,  and  Efficacy  in  Truth  as  ever  there  was  ;  And 
may  the  Fountain  of  all  Goodness  justice  &  Mercy  still  Continue  his  Care 
and  oversight,  to  his  Children  and  people  and  favour  them  with  the 
Upper  &  Nether  Springs  of  his  Love  to  the  Consolating  and  refreshing 
them  together  whilst  here,  and  receive  us  all  into  the  full  fruition  of 
Bliss  and  Glory  hereafter,  is  what  J  sincerely  desire. 

Dear  Joshua  S  J  thought  not  when  J  took  pea  in  hand,  to  expose 
myself  in  such  a  manner,  and  so  largely  ;  but  now  recollecting  to  whom 
J  am  writing,  must  crave  thy  favourable  Excuse  for  so  doing  not  doubting, 
but  thou  will  Condescend  to  overlook  my  Simplicity  herein  as  well  as 
thou  hast  Complied  to  visit  me  wth  a  few  lines  :  And  J  do  entreat  thee 
that  when  thy  Leisure  and  freedom  shall  permit,  to  visit  me  again  wtb  thy 
hand  writing,  having  always  a  desire  of  such  Epistolary  Visits  from  my 
near  and  dear  |f riends,  when  personal  ones  cann't  be  Conveniently 
performed,    (Tho'  am  in  hopes  of  seeing  thee  soon  with  thy  Nephew,5 

i  "  Happy  are  they  who  can  learu  prudence  from  the  danger  of 
others" — a  footnote  in  a  modern  hand. 

s  This  was,  doubtless,  Allan  Toft,  son.  of  Samuel  and  Lettice  (Key) 
Toft.    He  was  born  in  1724  and  died  in  1746. 


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FROM    THE    ORIGINAL    IX  D. 


THOMAS  BENNET,  SCHOOLMASTER  209 


whom  thou  intended  to  put  to  School  here)  and  shall  never  bethink  the 
Charge  of  postage  &c.  let  thine  come  as  often  as  thou  art  disposed.  J 
am  sorry  to  hear  of  thy  Brother's6  Death,  but  hope  'tis  his  Gain  and 
inasmuch  as  Mortality  cries  aloud  in  many  places,  happy  and  blessed 
are  all  those  who  are  living  Witnesses  (mbrte  appropinquante)  that 
the  Sting  of  Death  is  taken  away  ;  these  can  with  assurance,  having 
their  Garments  washed  white  in  the  blood  of  the  Lamb,  enter  into  the 
heavenly  Jerusalem,  with  songs  of  Joy  and  Triumph,  where  they  Live 
to  praise  &  magnifie  his  worth}7  Name,  that  has  thus  redeemed  them  : 
and  that  Lives  for  ever  &  Ever. 

J  conclude  in  dear  Love  and  much  Affection 

Thy  real  and  unfeigned  Friend 

T.  Bennett. 

Benj*  Kidd"  has  been  lately  thro'  our  County,  watering  what 
thou  did  plant  :    J  wish  we  may  be  worthy  of  such  Visits — 

J  venture  to  add  :  Ail  thy  known  friends  in  this  County  are 
dearly  remembred  to  thee. 

Please  in  thy  next  to  give  me  thy  meaning  to  this  Sentence,  in 
thine  before  me,  because  J  do  not  rightly  understand  it  :  viz1 

'  So  that  Self  comes  to  be  made  of  no  reputation,  nor  do  we  Spoil 
the  work  by  Sleighting  our  Gift  because  we  think  it  is  but  small  and  yet 
by  Jf  aithfulness  amounts  to  a  Considerable  degree  of  Inward  Solace.' 
(Sleighting  our  Gift)  is  what  J  would  have  unfolded  :  The  Gift  in  my 
opinion,  tho'  never  so  small  ought  not  to  be  Slighted  but  embraced 
&  loved  for  the  Givers  Sake. 

Note  after  J  had  Sealed  the  Letter  was  willing  to  break  it  open 
again  myself,  please  to  remember  me  kindly  to  my  friend  &  Quondam 
Schoolfellow  Sam.  Lucas. 
[Addressed] 

To  Joshua  Toft 

att  his  Seat  att  Leek 
Staffordshire. 

The  year  1740  was  still  young  when  small-pox  broke 
out  in  the  School,  and  not  long  before  there  had  been 
difficulty  respecting  tithe  (see  reproduction  of  letter  to 
Friends  in  London8),  but  these  troubles  were  doubtless 
mitigated  by  the  help  of  a.  valuable  assistant,  John  Gough? 

6  Samuel  Toft  died  in  8  mo.  1732.  aged  thirty-six.     His  brother 
Joshua  appears  to  have  become  the  guardian  of  his  nephew,  Allan. 
?  For  B.  Kidd  (d.  1751),  see  The  Journal,  v.  x. 

8  Photographed  from  the  original  in  D. 

9  John  Gough  (1721-1791)  was  the  son  of  John  and  Mary  Gough,  of 
Kendal.  At  about  the  age  of  fourteen  he  entered  Pickwick  School  as 
Assistant.  He  was  upwards  of  twenty  years  a  schoolmaster  in  Dublin, 
and  became  in  1774  head  of  the  boarding  school  at  Lisburn,  where  he 
died.  His  magnum  opus  in  literature  was  his  History  of  the  People  called 
Quakers,  in  four  vols.,  1789-90.  He  also  wrote  treatises  on  arithmetic, 
grammar,  etc. 


2ic     THOMAS  BENNET,  SCHOOLMASTER 


byname,  who  had  been  some  four  or  five  years  in  Bonnet's 
employ.  When,  somewhat  later  in  1740,  Gough  applied 
for  a  certificate  of  removal,  the  Friends  of  his  MM. 
express  great  esteem  for  him  in  the  following  words  : — 

John  Gough  the  bearer  hereof,  having  resided  near  four  years 
within  the  Verge  of  our  Meeting,  with  our  Friend  Thomas  Bennett 
Schoolmaster,  as  an  Assistant  to  him  in  his  School,  and  purposing  to 
remove  into  Ireland  to  settle  there  if  a  proper  place  offers  .  .  .  We 
think  proper  hereb;/  to  certihe  you,  that  during  his  service  with  the 
sd  Thomas  Bennett  ....  his  Behaviour  &.  conduct  .  .  - 
have  been  entirely  consistent  ....  and  that  he  discharged, 
himself  faithfully  M  his  late  Master's  service  both  with  honour  & 
reputation.  . 

Gough' s  place  was  taken  by  Anthony  Hatsell,  of 
Kendal. 

We  know  little  of  the  Friends  who  passed  through 
Pickwick  School — one  scholar  at  least  became  a  noted  man, 
Bristol's  great  philanthropist,  Richard  Reynolds  (1735- 
1816).  In  a  memorandum  respecting  him,  printed  in 
Reynolds-Rathbone  Diaries  and  Letters,  1.905,  p.  171,  we 
read  as  follows  : — 

1741  to  1750,  Richard  Remolds  was  taken  as  a  Boarder  to  the 
School  of  Thbs.  Bennet  at  Pickwick  in  the  County  of  Wilts,  the  nth  of 
2d  Month,  1741,  being  5  years,  5  months,  and  10  days  old,  and  continued 
there  till  the  7th  Month,  1750. 

Poor  little  fellow  !  we  hope  his  school -fellows  were 
kind  to  him. 

During  the  next  year  or  two,  religious  visits  w7ere 
paid  "  westwards,"  and  also  in  Berkshire  and  Hampshire, 
and  on  the  nth  of  4  mo.  1749,  an  interesting  event 
occurred — the  marriage  of  John,  son  of  Thomas  Bennet, 
with  Hester,  daughter  of  Samuel  Rutty,  of  Melksham. 
Ihe  Rutty  family  was  prominent  in  Wiltshire  Quakerism. 
John  Rtitty  (1698-1775),  the  noted  doctor  and  writer,  was 
a  member  of  this  family,  who  removed  to  Dublin  in  1724. 
John  Bennet  must  by  this  time  have  become  a  valuable 
assistant  to  his  father,  and  probably  liberated  him  for  the 
religious  work  he  engaged  in  freely  at  this  period  of  his 
life.  The  School  still  flourished.  A  minute  of  the  Q.M. 
of  4  mo.  1 761,  runs  : — 

As  to  the  Eighth  of  last  the  following  answer  is  directed  to  be 
delivered  by  our  deputies  to  the  Yearly  Meeting  in  London,  (viz1)  With 
respect    to    Encouraging   Schoolmasters,    this    meeting   taking  into 


II 


Grace  ==  Thomas  Webb  Elizabeth  Katherine 

b.  1764.     of  Melksham,  b.  1766.  b.  1770 

ra.  1793.      formerly  of  d.  d. 
d.  Bristol. 


father  nor  son  appears  to  have  made  use  of 


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Thomas  (Headlty)  I .f.nnh  =  Mary 


John  (Litchfield)  BtsNET  =  Hes 


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1750. 


Thomas  Headley 


lha  =  David  Aldis 
1758.    of  Melksham, 
1796.      formerly  of 
Norfolk. 


Thomas  Headle 


John  Litchfield 
b.  1702.    d.  1773. 


Grace  =  Thomas  Webi 
b.  1704.  of  .Melksham, 
in.  1795.  formerly  of 
d.  Bristol. 


Elizabeth 
b.  1766. 


Tlie  nomenclature  of  Ihe  Rennet  family  is  interesting  in  that  it  contains  quite  early  instances  of  two  "given  names,1'  although  neither  father  nor  son  appears  to  have  made  use  of 

the  Headley  in  one  case,  and  the  Litchfield  in  the  other. 


THOMAS  BEN  NET,  SCHOOLMASTER  211 


consideration  the  proposal  reports  that  this  County  lias  been,  for  many 
years,  and  is  still  supplied  with  a  Schoolmaster,  who  was  accepted,  in 
that  capacity  by  the  approbation  of  the  Qua.  Meeting,  and  who  is  willing 
still,  to  serve  the  County  and  Society  in  that  Station,  in  Case  provision 
could  be  made  for  the  Education  of  poor  friends  child". 

And  now  the  end  draws  nigh,  but  of  the  closing 
scenes  of  Thomas  Bennet's  life  we  have  no  account.  Be 
was  present  at  a  M.M.  on  the  19th  of  3  mo.  1764,  and  this 
is  the  last  notice  of  his  attendance.  His  demise  took  place 
on  the  10th  of  7  ma.  1764,  and  his  burial  at  Pickwick  on 
the  i§th.  Three  days  later  the  M.M'.  decided  to  hold  its 
next  sessions  at  the  house  of  Mary  Bennet  at  Pickwick. 

Fortunately  the  son  was  prepared  to  take  the  father's 
place.  At  a  M.M.  held  at  John  Bennet's,  10th  of  9  mo. 
1764  :— 

John  Bennet  also  acquainted  this  Meeting  that  he  intends  succeeding 
his  late  Father  Thomas  Bennet  in  Teaching  the  school  at  Pickwick, 
which  our  Deputies  are  likewise  desired  to  lay  before  the  next  Q.M.  for 
their  approbation. 

This  met  with  the  approbation  of  the  Q.M.  John 
Bennet  was  also  installed  in  his  father's  place  as  "  writer  " 
of  M.M.  and  Q.M.  minutes,  but  the  handwriting  of  father 
and  son  was  so  similar,  it  is  difficult  to  state  when 
the  break  was  made.  Between  them  they  Wrote  the 
Q.M.  minutes  from  11  mo.  1726,  to  9  mo.  1774,  and  M.M. 
minutes  from  8  mo.  1726,  to  7  mo.  1775. 

There  is  no  information  at  hand  as  to  the  future  of 
the  Pickwick  Grammar  School.  It  may  be  that  John 
Bennet  resigned  his  position,  or  the  School  may  have  been 
given  up — in  the  record  of  the  death  of  his  son  John, 
in  1773,  he  (the  father)  is  termed  M  weaver,"  and  he  is 
styled  "  j^eoman  "  at  his  own  death  in  1802. 

In  1800,  Pickwick  appears  in  a  list  of  Wiltshire 
Meetings,  the  hours  of  the  gathering  being  First-day  at  11 
and  Fifth-day  at  ii.  In  1815,  the  Meeting  was  held 
monthly  in  summer,  and  later  in  the  year  closed  entirely. 

Here  we  must  leave  the  family,  adding  only  a 
genealogical  table,  which  will  show  the  coimection  of 
the  family  with  Wilts  Quakerism  down  to  the  beginning 
of  the  nineteenth  century,  the  last:  entry  in  the  Registers 
being  the  death  of  Thomas  Bennet,  yeoman,  of  Pickwick, 
in  1804,  aged  forty- nine. 


(Recorb  of  ^kvte  txavtffh\$  in  Jwfonb, 
1056?  1705 

Concluded  from  p.  180 


2?co  cj^1.  Thos  Wilson  of  the  Province  of  Leinster 
(he  stayd  yc  6th  &  first  days  Meetings  &  went  to  Bandon) 
with  whom  ffrd3  were  well  comforted  &  rejoiced  in  the 
Lord  for  ye  good  providence  of  his  Visit  he  was  very 
Divinely  opened  to  yc  states  of  both  Elder  &  younger 
the  latter  often  came  to  his  rememberance  that  if  they  will 
be  faithful  to  the  Lord  he  will  make  them  Instruments 
in  his  hand  to  preach  the  Gospel,  But  withal  he  prophecied 
that  trying  times  must  first  come  &  the  Whore  will  drink 
of  the  Blood  of  ye  saints  once  more  but  her  Reign  will  be 
short  &c. 

17th.  Will1*  Dover  came  to  Visit  friends  of  this  place 
&  did  the  like  to  Bandon. 

Peter  Fearon  (a  Nephew  of  y*  Peter  Fearon  mentioned 
in  page  (  )  happened  to  be  bound  to  sea  for  Pensilvania 
&  stayd  here  a  few  days  having  a  Publick  Testimony  .  The 
Ship  came  from  Liverpool  put  him  ashore3  at  Dublin 
and  he  came  by  land  to  meet  her  here. 

22d  3™.  Thos  Wilkinson  a  3d  time  Will" 
Armstrong  2d  time,  their  coming  was  just  to  the  Pro: 
Meeting,  were  very  fresh  in  their  Ministry,  by  whom 
friends  were  well  refresh' d  &  satisfied  in  their  Services. 

30th.  John  Hall  who  had  been  here  in  a  Message 
extraordinary  to  friends  of  Ireland  in  the  year  1693  tho 
bu[t]  short  in  the  expressive  part,  came  now  in  a  more 
publick  service,  stay'd  the  first  day  Meetings  and  went 
to  Castlesalem  &  had  a  Meeting  at  Bandon  in  which 
places  (as  in  general  he  did)  &  particularly  in  Corke 
Meeting  give  Warning  of  great  calamities  to  come  in  this 
Nation,  which  the  late  war  was  little  to,  for  that  (said  he) 
the  Lord  will  send  a  great  Plague  to  this  Nation  and  to 
this  City  of  Corke,  so  that  many  thousands  will  die  thereof 

3  From  this  point  (the  foot  of  p.  39  of  the  manuscript)  the 
handwriting  changes. 


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FRIENDS  TRAVELLING  IN  IRELAND  213 


and  they  shall  lie  dead  in  their  streets  and  Houses,  and  the 
stench  thereof  will  be  so  great  that  there  will  scarcely  be 
people  enough  left  to  bury  them,  ascribing  the  cause 
thereof  to  the  great  Pride  and  abominable  sins  this  nation 
abounds  in,  and  hath  not  been  humbled  under  the  great 
deliverances,  mercies  &  plenties,  which  hath  been  enjoy'd 
since  the  late  war,  also  by  way  of  Prophecy  said  that  the 
time  will  come  that  a  Prince  will  sit  upon  the  throne 
in  England  that  will  receive  the  Truth  &  govern  in 
righteousness. 

5tb  m  2d.  John  Salkild  from  Pensilvania  William 
Baldwin  of  Lancashire  came  to  visit  friends  of  this 
Nation  was  at  the  Prov.  Meeting  at  Clonmell,  and  so  to 
Corke  &  other  Meetings  of  this  Province. 

12th.  Margaret  Satterthwait  (by  her  Maiden  name) 
who  came  sometime  past  in  the  service  of  Truth  is  come 
now  a  Wife  to  Joseph  Hoare  of  Corke  who  went  into 
Lancashire  &  married  her  there. 

16.  William  Copely  [Copeland]  of  Yorkshire  serge 
Maker  came  to  visit  friends  of  this  nation,  he  was  weakly  in 
body  and  aged,  and  went  no  further  than  Corke. 

7tb  S  19th.  George  Rooke,  Paul  Johnson,  of  Dublin, 
carne  to  our  Pro:  Meeting  at  Limerick,  the  first  went  to 
visit  friends  of  the  County  Tipperary,  the  latter  came  to 
Corke  and  returned  by  way  of  Youghall. 

8th  £  3d.  Elizth  Jacob,  Abigail  Craven,  came  to  our 
first  day  Meeting  at  Corke  and  had  three  Publick  Meetings 
that  day,  to  the  comfort  and  satisfaction  of  friends,  the 
motion  for  coming  chiefly  belong'd  to  Abigail. 

10th  £  14th.  Richard  Sealy  came  to  our  Pro:  Meeting 
in  Corke,  he  visited  Charlevill,  Youghall,  Limerick,  the 
County  Tipperary  Meetings  &  Waterford. 

11th  £  4th.  Luke  Cock  a  Yorkshire  Friend,  John  Greer, 
of  Ulster  Province. 

8.  Nicholas  Lock  of  the  pro  :  of  Leinster  landed 
from  England. 

31.  EIiz,Jl  Jacob  had  a  Meeting  at  Kinsale  on  y« 
Ist  day  of  the  week. 

17*4, 

Ist  £  27.  Elizth  Rawlins  on  came  a  second  time  in 
Truth's  service  accompanied  by  a  friend  of  Lancashire 


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not  publick,  stay'd  first  days  Meetings,  2d  day  went  to 
Band  on,  &  3d  day  was  at  Cuppage  Hillary's  Marriage  & 
so  on  to  Chaiieville. 

2d£>i7tii.  James  Wilson  of  about  Westmorland 
came  to  Corke  the  day  before  the  Pro :  Meeting  (with  a 
friend  a  young  man  his  Companion)  and  was  largely  drawn 
forth  in  several  Meetings,  against  the  unfaithful  disobedi- 
ent and  careless  professors  of  Truth  in  whom  the  love  of 
the  world  and  coveting  after  ye  Riches  and  greatness 
thereof,  had  drawn  them  from  their  love  to  Truth,  and 
that  without  returning  to  their  first  love  &c.  whilst,  their 
day  of  visitation  lasted  wou'd  end  in  sorrow  and  exclusion 
from  the  Bridegrooms  Chamber. 

Daniel  Rigby  of  Cumberland,  came  another  way  to 
the  same  Pro  :  Meeting  who  had  been  here  in  the  year 
One.  thousand  Seven  Hundred. 

19.  Will™-  Baldwin  who  had  been  here  in  Truths 
service  with  John  Salkild  last  5^  £  arrived  here  from 
Liverpool  in  a  ship  bound  for  Pennsylvania  wherein 
were  many  families  going  there  also,  he  had  several 
Meetings  here  before  friends  of  the  Province  separated, 
and  visited  Youghal  friends,  He  was  a  man  of  very 
exemplary  life,  &  sound  &  weighty  in  his  Testimony. 

3d  I  29th.  Robert  Robertson  of  the  North  came  to 
Corke  to  the  Province  Meeting. 

4th  I  19A  Ellis  Lewis  a  Welsh  friend  but  a  dweller 
in  Ulster  Province,  visited  friends  Meetings  as  far  West  as 
Skibbereen. 

io,h  g  nth.  John  Barecroft  and  Mungo  Bewley  of 
Leinster  province  visited  the  Meetings  of  this  Province, 
and  went  as  far  West  as  Castle  Salem,  John  meeting  with 
an  express  from  home  [25th]  left  Mungo  in  the  County 
Tippcrary,  who  came  again  to  Corke  to  the  Province  Meeting. 

William  Dover  also  was  at  this  province  Meeting 
he  came  three  days  before  it. 

IIth  I  27*;  Charles  Howell  first  having  visited 
several  Meetings  of  this  Province,  came  to  Corke  ten  days 
before  the  Pro:  Meeting  he  having  on  his  mind  a  previous 
visit  to  the  Western  parts,  and  being  accompanied  by  George 
Bewle}'  and  other  friends,  he  had  a  fleeting  at  Kin  sale, 
Baltimore,  Skibereen  and  then  Bandon  and  so  to  the  Pro : 
Meeting  at  Corke. 


FRIENDS  TRA  VELLING  IN  IRELAND  215 


1st  £  18th.    John  Barecroft  the  Ninth  time  came  with 
his  wife  who  also  had  a  service  in  Meetings.    It  was  the 
\    Pro :  Meeting  &  went  no  farther,  returning  back  to 
Leinster. 

Ist  S  30*h.    Thos  Wilson  Jas  Dickinson  landed  this 
day  from  America,  stay'd  one  week  day  Meeting  and 
[     went  directly  to  Mountmellick  Pro  :  Meeting. 
:  4th  m  11.    Joshua    Northall    Ralph    Stevenson  to 

the  Province  Meeting  at  Corke. 

5th  m  12th.  William  Greenup  Willm  Brookheld  a 
Second  time  accompanied  by  a  Young  Mail  out  of 
England  viz.  Samuel  Peacock  also  by  Will™  Brookfield 
from  Dublin,  they  went  to  Bandon  and  West  as  far  as 
Skibereen  then  to  the  Pro  Meeting  at  Clonmeli. 

6th  s  16*.  Richard  Ransum  of  Norfolk  a  Miller, 
Thos  Lightfoot  of  Leinster  Province,  they  went  to 
Bandon  &  Castle  Salem. 

30.  Susanna  Saunders  her  dwelling  was  at  Clifton'in 
Bedfordhsire.  [She  died  at  Lurgan.]  Benjamina  Padley 
of  London.  Margaret  Fawcet  with  her  sister  inlaw  Sarah 
Barrow  of  Lurgan,  the  said  Marg1  was  here  in  the  year 
1700  (with  Mary  Crouson)  her  name  then  was  Barrow, 
again  she  came  in  1709  her  name  then  was  Minshall,  she 
stay'd  here  6th  &  first  day's  Meetings  &  went  no  farther, 
she  dwells  now  in  the  County  Antrim  in  Ulster. 

9th  5  21st.    Jonas   Shaw   George  Delap,    of  Ulster 
I      they  went  to  Bandon. 

io*b  g  15.  Margaret  Langdal  of  Burlington  York- 
shire, Sarah  Collier  of  Lincolnshire  unmarryd,  they  went 
hence  for  England. 

nth  I  yxht  James  Greer  John  Nicholson  of  Lurgan 
they  went  as  far  as  Skibereen. 

i    Ist  m  13th.    Joseph  Gill  Gregory  Russell  of  Leinster 
Province  they  went  to  Skibereen. 

1716. 

4th  g  IK    John  Fallowfield  (a  ?A  time)  a  Her  staying 

6lh    &    first    days    Meetings,    he    went  on.    5$  day 

to  a  Meeting  at    Bandon   and   yl   day  had  a  g$od 


2i6     FRIENDS  TRAVELLING  IN  IRELAND 


meeting  at  Kinsaie,  4th  day  he  had  a  Meeting  at  Corke 
Meeting  House,  on  occasion  of  Peter  Thompson's  burial, 
a  master  of  a  Ship  who  died  at  Cove,  the  Registry  of  burials 
is  more  particular  of  him  and  John  Fallowfield's  farther 
Service  at  the  Grave. 

4th  I  27.  Henry  Atkinson  Richard  Waite  a  Second 
time,  of  Cumberland.  They  had  a  Meeting  at  Bandon 
&  Castle  Salem  &  only  the  First  days  Meeting  here. 

5th  I  2o,-h.  Thomas  Story  who  had  been  here  in  1698 
landed  here  from  Bristol  and  came  to  town  timely  to  our 
afternoon  first:  days  Meeting  and  stay'd  about  two 
ks,  visited  Bandon  Meeting  and  had  one  Meeting  at 
Kinsaie. 

6th  »  4th.  Joseph  Richardson  of  Lincolnshire  Eleazar 
Sheldon  of  Leinster,  to  the  Pro  :  Meeting. 

yih  m  15.  John  Danson  came  to  the  Pro:  Meeting  in 
Corke  and  had  been  here  in  the  year  1678. 

8lb  1 21.  George  Gibson  from  Kingham  Edmd 
Peckover  from  Wells  County  Norfolk,  were  at  our  Pro : 
Meeting  &  no  farther. 

10th  i  12th.  James  Hoskins  came  hither  and  stayd 
about  twelve  da}~s  &  went  no  farther. 

20.  Thos  Wilson  came  here  by  Way  of  Limerick 
stayed  the  6'h  and  7111  days  Meetings,  James  and  he  went  to 
Youghall. 

IIth  m  1.  George  BeWley  of  Cumberland  2d  time, 
David  Hodgson  his  kinsman,  both  went  to  Bandon. 

5.  James  Bates  from  Virginia,  Geo:  Chalkley  from 
London,  they  came  first  to  Dublin  and  visited  friends  of 
this  Nation,  George  &  he  visited  Youghall  Meeting,  George 
took  passage  to  Bristol,  James  stay'd  till  the  beginning  of 
the  second  Month  and  went  off  in  a  Corke  Ship  bound  for 
Virginia. 

19.  Thos  Story  aforesaid  since  his  landing  here 
and  visiting  friends  Meetings  in  this  Nation,  as  also 
having  had  Meetings  among  the  Worlds  People  and 
Professors  came  again  to  Corke,  &  stay'd  about  16  days, 
in  which  time  many  fiook'd  to  the  Meetings  of  the  greater 
Sort,  and  the  Testimony  of  Truth  was  magnified  thro 
his  Ministry,  also  one  time  at  a  Friends  Marriage  lie  had 
an  extraordinary  auditory  and  the  Lord's  Power  was 
eminently  over  the    Meeting,   which  was  so  greatly 


FRIENDS  TRAVELLING  IN  IRELAND  217 


throng'd  that  the  house  cou'd  not  contain  the  People, 
he  had  another  Meeting  Forenoon  &  Afternoon  on  the 
first  day  at  Kinsale,  and  upon  going  thro'  Mallow,  had  a 
Meeting  there  among  the  Town's  People. 

1717. 

4th  £  21.   Deborah  Bell  Margt  Oliffe  from  London,  they 
stay'd  here  a  considerable  time  and  had  several  Meetings, 
went  to  Yougholl  &  Bandon,  &  stay'd  some  time  alter, 
tiLl  they  went  towards  the  County  of  Tipperary,  in  most  of 
these  Meetings  Deborah  was  much  concern/el  to  stirr 
friends  up  to  their  Duty,  in  a  Remembrance  of  the  many 
blessings  and  mercies  bestowed  upon  them,  and  that  none 
thro'  a  wrong  use  of  these  favours  may  render  them- 
selves so  unworthy,  as  to  cause  them  to  be  turn'd  into  a 
curse*  &  not  a  blessing  ;   and  warn'd  some  who  were 
as  in  the  Eleventh  Hour  of  their  Visitation  not  to  delay 
time  any  longer,  lest  they  should  come  to  be  wrap'd  up  in 
thick  darkness  and  so  partake  of  eternal  night  and  then 
they  would  wish  they  had  never  been  born,  after  they 
had  taken  their  leave  of  friends  here  they  went  hence  in 
order  to  visit  friends  in  the  Count}7  Tipperary,  &  so  into 
Leinster  Province,  but  in  the  way  about  Sixteen  Miles 
from  Corke,  Deborah  was  taken  very  ill,  so  that  she  was 
fore'd  to  return  and  came  here  the  17th  of  the  5th  month 
with  her  Companion  and  friends  that  accompanied  them 
from   hence,   where   she  hath   continued   having  had 
several  Meetings  amongst  us  to  the  great  satisfaction  & 
comfort  of  friends,  the  Testimon}7  of  Truth  being  often 
exalted  over  the  heads  of  Transgressors,  she  often  spoke 
Prophetically  of  the  Lords  work  to  be  carried  on  in  the 
Earth,  and  the  great  trouble  and.  anxiety  of  Spirit  that 
would  attend  the  careless  and  unconcerned  in  Sion,  they 
continued  with  us  from  their  first  coming  hither  for  about 
two  months  and  then  took  shipping  for  Bristol.    She  was 
a  Woman  extraordinarily  gifted  and  well  Qualified  for  the 
work  of  the  Ministry. 

5th  i  20th.  Elizabeth  Jacob  accompanied  by  Eliza- 
beth Pease  came  here  on  purpose  to  visit  friends,  she 
continued  first  &  3d  Days  Meetings  and  had  a  Meeting 
for  the  young  Folks  third  day  afternoon  and  so  returned 
homewards  a  fourth  day. 


2i8     FRIENDS  TRAVELLING  IN  IRELAND 


6th  m  Q.  John  Peacock  from  Hambleton  in  Scotland 
travel'd  hither  on  foot  and  did  so  thro'  the  Kingdom 
having  some  infirmity  attending  him  that  he  could  not 
well  bear  riding. 

29.  Mary  Howard  from  Essex,  Marg*  Copeland 
Westmoreland,  had  Meetings  here  6th  and  first  days,  Mary 
went  into  the  West  as  far  as  Castle  Salem  and  return'd 
fifth  day,  they  continued  here  'till  second  day  after  and 
set  forward  to  Charlville. 

7tb  p  20.  Elizabeth  Townsend  Rebeccah  Jopson, 
two  plain  Women  from  the  north  of  England,  they 
continued  here  only  first  days  Meetings,  were  sound  & 
weighty  in  their  Testimonies,  and  were  for  exalting  the 
Ancient  Testimony  of  Truth  in  respect  to  plainness  in 
Apparel  S:c. 

24.  Thomas  Burton  Joseph  Gurney  from  Norwich 
sta}T,d  3d  &  6th  days  Meetings,  were  at  our  Province 
Meeting,  had  a  Meeting  with  the  Young  People  a  third 
day  in  the  Afternoon  &  went  hence  to  Youghall. 

10th  i  21.    Richard  Sealy  to  our  Province  Meeting. 

12th  £  8.  Th'o9  Harrison  from  the  North  of  England, 
stay'd  first  days  Meetings,  went  to  Bandon,  was  at  our 
third  days  Meeting  &  from  hence  to  Charlevill. 

Ist  ni  5th.  Elizabeth  Jacob  Abigail.  Craven  came 
to  visit  friends  as  also  Marg'ret  Hoare  who  then  lay  very 
weak,  they  were  at  our  6th  Ist  &  3d  Days  Meetings,  and  had 
a  Meeting  with  the  3'Toung  People  of  both -sexes,  First  day 
after  being  the  iqt*  Ins1  and  our  Pro:  Meeting,  they  had 
(with  concurrence  of  friends)  a  meeting  at  Kinsale, 
accompanied  by  Cha:  Howell  and  other  friends  of  ye 
Province  &  of  Corke,  which  Meeting  was  pretty  quiet,  the 
people  attent  ive  and  to  the  satisfaction  of  friends.  Abigail 
continued  here  'till  the  death  of  our  dear  friend  Margaret 
Hoare  which  was  the  24th  Ins*  to  whose  Burial  Eiizth 
Jacob  return'd  with  other  friends  from  Limerick,  and 
Charkvil!,  the  Corpse  being  brought  to  the  Meeting 
House  there  was  a  great  gathering  of  People,  and  many 
of  those  of  Note  were  present,  the  Testimony  of  Truth 
exalted  suitable  to  the  occasion  &  in  respect  to  our 
deceased  Friend,  of  her  Labours,  Travels,  &  Concern  for 
the  welfare  of  Sion.  Many  were  tender'd  &  the  Meeting 
ended  in  a  solemn  manner. 


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171B. 

3d  §  31st.  John  Adam  Willp  Pickerin  from  about 
Yorkshire  stayd  our  first  day's  Meeting  &  went  hence  to 
Youghall. 

4th  i  7.  Rachel  Tucker  Ann  Pengeliy  from  about 
Exeter  the}'  landed  at  Waterford  and  came  thence  to  our 
Pro :  Meeting. 

6th  m  6tb.  Mary  Hoskins  Elizth  Stamper  both  Sisters 
from  London,  the  first  married  the  other  a  maiden  friend 
they  took  shipping  hence  for  Bristol!. 

7th  a  flth  George  Rooke  Will*  Brookfield  from  Dublin 
were  at  our  third,  day  Meeting,  went  to  Bandon  &  Castle 
Salem  and  had  a  Meeting  a  sixth  day  at  Kinsale  the 
people  very  quiet  and  attentive  tho  not  so  many  as  are 
usually  on  a  first  day,  the}r  were  at  our  hrst  day's 
Meeting  and  went  hence  next  day  to  Charlevill, 

27.  Sarah  Ealand  from  Yorkshire  Kath :  Storrs 
from  Derbyshire  came  here  two  weeks  before  our  Pro : 
Meeting,  went  in  that  time  a  fourth  day  to  Youghall  & 
return'd  sixth  day,  stay'd  our  first  day  Meetings,  and  went 
to  Bandon  a  second  day,  from  thence  to  Kinsale,  and  had 
a  good  Meeting  there  a  third  day,  &  returnd  to  our  sixth 
days  meetings  and  continued  here  until!  ye  Pro:  Meeting 
was  over,  and  went  hence  wth  friends  to  Waterford,  in  all 
which  Meetings  amongst  friends  the}^  were  zealously 
concernd  for  the  growth  and  prosperity  of  Truth  and 
against  a  loose  libertine  spirit,  but  especially  Sarah  who 
was  a  Woman  largely  gifted  and  well  qualified  for  the 
work  of  the  Ministry. 

c/h  I  21.  John  Barcroft  &  Elizabeth  his  wife  from 
Leinster  were  at  our  Province  Meeting  and  had  a  Meeting 
with  the  young  People  of  both  sex  3d  day  afternoon,  they 
went  hence  with  friends  into  the  County  Tipperary,  they 
seem'd  well  satisfied  wlb  their  visit. 

i2Ul  §  5th.  Richard  Sealy  had  a  Meeting  at  Dungarvan 
in  his  way  to  Corke  with  Mungo  Bewley. 

6th.  Mungo  Bewley  Alex1  Slfieliey  had  two  meetings 
on  a  first  day  at  Kinsale,  one  at  Baltimore,  one  at 
Skibcreen  and  in  their  return  had  an  opportunity  wit  lithe 
family  at  Castle  Salem,  and  a  meeting  at  Bandon  and 
so  to  the  Quarter]}'  Meeting  at  Corke,  after  which 
they  had  a  Meeting  at  'Fallow  and  Caperquin. 


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1719. 

4th  £  10th.  Mary  Ellerton,  Yorkshire,  Matty  Nickson, 
Lancashire,  were  at  our  sixth  &  first  clays  Meetings, 
&  second  day  had  a  Meeting  with  the  young  People,  third 
day  had  a  Meeting  at  Bandon  where  Thos  Rigg's  Marriage 
was  accomplish'd,  they  went  thence  to  Baltimore,  had  a 
Meeting  fifth  day  morning  and  one  at  Skibercen  in  the 
afternoon,  sixth  day  at  Castle  Salem,  and  return'd  that 
Evening  to  Bandon,  next  day  to  Kinsale  where  they 
had  two  Meetings  on  first  day,  return'd  to  Corke  that 
Evening^  were  at  the  Women's  three  Weeks  Meeting  next 
day  and  our  third  day  meeting  following,  theystay'd  'till 
fifth  day  and  then  went  towards  Limerick. 

5th  g  1  st.  Samuel  Hopwood  Cornwall  Peter  Williams 
not  Publick  Exeter,  they  were  here  about  two  weeks  in 
W*  time  had  several  Meetings,  and  Samuel  was  ardently 
concern'cl  for  the  promotion  of  Truth,  and  growth  & 
Prosperity  of  Sion,  he  spoke  Prophetically  that  the  Lord 
was  about  to  concern  some  in  our  Meeting  for  his  work 
&  service  in  the.  Ministry  and  would  make  them  valiant 
for  his  name,  if  they  would  be  but  faithfull,  he  was  sound 
and  weight}'  in  his  Testimony.  They  went  as  far  as 
Castle  Salem  and  went  hence  to  Charlevill. 

15.  Jonas  Shaw  from  the  North  was  here  sixth 
and  first  days  Meetings  &  went  as  far  as  Bandon. 

24.  Robert  Collier  Lincolnshire,  Paul  Johnson 
Dublin. 

7th  m,  latter  end.  John  Turner  Lurgan  took  ship- 
ping here  for  England. 

8^  3  15.  Joseph  Gill  Dublin,  Abraham  Fry,  Kings 
Count}7,  were  at  our  Province  Meeting. 

17.  Caleb  Granger  Durham,  Thos  Greenwood,  West- 
morland to  Bandon  and  Castle  Salem. 

10th  %  2*.  Samuel  Wilkinson  Antrim,  went  as  far  as 
Bandon,  was  here  at  our  Sixth  day's  Meeting,  and  stay'd 
till  third  day  it  being  our  Province  Meeting. 

5th.  Robert  Sin cl aire  of  Connaught  was  at  the 
Province  Meeting,  Samuel  and  he  went  hence  to  You  glial! . 

1720. 

?A  i  6th.  Deborah  Bell  who  with  her  Cbmj*at*ion 
took  shipping  here  for  Bristol!  in  1717,  landed  here  this 


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day  from  Bristol!  to  the  Joy  and  Comfort  of  friends,  she 
tarried  here  some  time  and  went  hence  through  Meetings  in 
the  County  of  Tipperary  &c.  in  order  for  the  Half  Years 
Meeting. 

3d  i  24th.  Deborah  Bell  aforesaid  having  been  at  the 
Half  years  Meeting  and  visited  friends  in  her  return,  by 
the  way  of  Mountmelick  &c.  came  here  this  day,  where 
she  continued,  having  had  several  satisfactory  Meetings 
with  friends  of  this  city,  till  the  9th  of  4th  £  at  which  time 
she  took  shipping  for  Bristoll. 

T'.'.  Beniamiri  Hoi  me  who  was  in  Truth's  service 
in  America,  landed  at  Kinsale  and  came  to  Corke  tliis 
day  soon  after  the  Meeting  was  gather 'd. 

4th  £  23d.  Ann  Orde  Mary  Scott  Durham.  Two 
plain  honest  minded  friends,  went  hence  to  Bandon  & 
Castle  Salem,  having  been  first  at  our  6th  and  first 
day's  Meetings,  they  return' d  &  were  at  our  Pro  : 
Meeting. 

29.  Joshua  Fielding  from  London,  stay'd  our  Pro  : 
Meeting.  Catharine  Raile  landed  here  from  Bristol, 
she  had  been  here  in  the  year  1712  with  Mary  Trueman, 
but  came  now  without  a  Companion. 

6th  i  4^.  Alee  Alderton  El  en  or  Moore  Yorkshire 
were  at  our  6ih  &  i?t  day's  Meetings,  went  to  Bandon 
a  2d  day  and  had  a  Meeting  there,  next  day  return'd  in 
the  afternoon, and  because  the  Pro:  Meeting  at  Waterf  ord 
was  to  be  on  the  first  day  following,  there  was  a  Meeting 
for  all  friends  appointed  on  fourth  day  afternoon,  and  so 
being  clear  went  next  day  to  Youghall  in  order  for  the 
Pro:  Meeting,  Alee  seem'd  to  be  prophetically  engag'd 
that  the  Lord  wou'd  concern  some  in  our  Meeting  in  an 
eminent  maimer  for  his  work  &  service  it  they  were  but 
faithful? 

iolh.  Ann  Erwin  formerly  Wilson  carne  here  this 
evening,  went  next  day  to  Bandon  and  Castle  Salem 
return 'd  seventh  day  and  was  at  our  first  clay  Meeting. 

11th  £  26th.  Benjamin  Kidd,  Yorkshire*  Jona : 
Eves  his  Corripa  from  Leinster,  they  had  a  Meeting  at 
Castle  Salem,  and  one  in  their  return  at  Bandon,  its  to 
be  rernember'd  that  at  the  Meeting  at  Castle  Salem 
Benp  Kidd  said  that  was  a  fresh  visitation  from  the  Lord 
to  that  Family,  and  if  they  did  not  make  good  use  of  it, 


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he  believ'd  (or  to  that  Effect)  they  mk.y  never  have 
another,  or  the  like  again. 

28.    Paul  Johnson  was  at  our  Province  Meeting. 

1721. 

2d  £  jib,  Joshua  Northall  &  James  Pirn,  ayburigman, 
was  at  our  first  day's  meeting  and  went  on  third  da.y  1 0  Kill- 
common,  Joshua  was  much  concern'd  to  stirr  up  friends 
to  diligence  and  more  circumspection  in  conversation. 

7th  m  11.  Deborah  Elly,  Ross,  Mary  Martin, 
formerly  Haywood  from  Dublin,  they  went  as  far  as 
Bandon,  and  were  at  our  sixth  and  third  day's  Meetings. 

13.  Richard  Sealy  Waterford  was  at  our  sixth 
and  Ist  day's  Meetings,  and  third  day  was  at  the  Marriage 
of  Geo  :  Knight  &  Fra  :  Griffits. 

19th.  John  Thompson  of  Westmoreland  went  as 
far  as  Bandon,  and  return'd  the  same  day,  and  was  at  our 
Sixth  day's  Meeting. 

9th  £  18%  Geo:  Bewley  John  Hodgson,  Cumberland, 
John  Burton  Yorkshire,  Joseph  Watson  Cumberland, 
3d  5  14th  1721.  John  Richardson  '  Joseph  Bunting; 
of    Yorksl  16th    1721.     Jos.   Bunting    &:.  Jos, 

Watson  went  as  far  as  Bandon,  John  being  unwell  could 
not  go,  they  all  stay'd  here  our  Quarterly -Meeting,  and 
had  a  Meeting  with  the  \routh  of  both  sex,  which  was  very 
serviceable  and  hope  will  be,  remember' d. 

i  2-5.  Mary  Brockelbank  Elizabeth  Fisher,  Kendal 
stay'd  here  third  day  6th  and  first  da}7s  Meetings,  they 
visited  friends  of  Bandon,  &  went  hence  to  Youghall. 

6th  m  21st.  Mary  Wyatt  and  Susanna  Thornton 
landed  3iere  from  Bristoll,  stay'd  here  sixth,  and  first  days 
Meetings,  this  being  the  3d  time  Mary  was  here. 

yx\  mo.  17th.  Esther  Clear  of  Pensylvania  having 
been  some  time  in  England,  in  the  service  of  Truth  came 
accompanied  with  Sarah  Lay  of  London  to  visit  friends  of 
Ireland,  they  had  a  Meeting  at  Kinsale,  and  were  at  our 
first,  second  &  third  days  Meetings. 

1722. 

3d  £  8*1  Joshua  Northall,  Jacob  Fuller  John  Bare- 
croft  Leinster. 

9'b  §  11th.  James  Dickinson  John  Erwin  of 
Cumberland,  went  to  Bandon  arid  had  a  Meeting  at  the 


FRIENDS  TRAVELLING  IN  IRELAND  223 

usual  time,  and  an  evening  Meeting  very  large  and  full 
to  great  satisfaction,  went  thence  next  morning  to  Kinsale 
had  a  Meeting  there,  the  People  very  order])*,  stay'd  three 
days  at  Corke,  being  the  Quarterly  meeting,  and  had  a 
Meeting  with  the  youth  of  both  sex  and  on  the  sixteenth 
set  forwards  towards  Limerick. 

Ist  i  22d.    Elizabeth  Kendall  Grace  Srnithey. 

1723. 

4tb  s  26th.    Henry  Jackson,  Yorkshire. 

28th.  John  Apleton  landed  here  from  Philadelphia, 
Michael  Williams,  Samuel  Hopwood.  These  three  were 
at  the  Province  Meeting 

Eliz^  Pease  Elizth  Wilson  these  were  also  at  the 
Pro  :  Meeting  and  had  also  a  Particular  Meeting  with 
our  young  People,  where  Sam1  Hopwood  was  very 
powerfully  open'd,  &  drawn  forth  tow*3  our  Youth,  as 
was  also  Henry  Jackson. 

6th  5  2d.  Samuel  Hopwood  return 'd  here,  where  it- 
was  remark'd  that  he  said,  the  Lord  would  cut  off  some 
of  our  Young  men,  and  make  them  Examples  of  his  wrath 
if  they  did  not  speedily  repent,  pressing  them  to  bow  to  the 
small  but  lovely  appearance  of  Christ. 

8th  £  19^.  John  King  Cheshire  Wife  Tomlinson 
Lancashire. 

12th  £  29.  Joseph  Gill  Samuel  Sheldon  Dublin, 
they  had  a  Meeting  at  Kinsale,  &  Ba.nd.on  &  stay'd 
ye  Pro :  Meeting. 

1724. 

jih  %  26th.  John  Fothergill  Yorkshire  John  Ashton 
near  Birr,  they  had  a  Meeting  at  Skibereen,  Castle  Salem, 
Ban  don  and  Kinsale,  return  d  to  Corke  and  went  hence 
to  the  Pro :  Meeting  at  Limerick. 

28.  Michael  Williams  was  here  at  a  third  day 
meeting,  and  went  hence  to  the  said  Pro:  Meeting. 

8th  £L  Nicholas  Harris  Abigail  Boles  had  two  Meet- 
ings at  Kinsale  on  a  first  day  which  were  to  satisfaction. 

17.  Richard  Seaiy  was  at  our  first  and  third  days 
Meetings,  and  had  a  Meeting  a  fourth  day  at  the  Meeting 
House,  where  the  corpse  of  Ebcnczcr  Pike  was  brought 
for  want  of  sufficient  room  at  the  House. 

io-b  £  18th.     Julian    Frankland    Yorkshire  Sarah 


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Jackson  Lancaster,  went  to  Bandon  &  return'd  to  the 
Province  Meeting  at  Corke. 

8th  m  26th.  Elizabeth  Jacob  came  to  our  Province 
Meeting  and  stay'd  our  third  days  Meeting. 

11th  i  29th.  John  Fothergill  return'd  a  second  time 
into  these  parts,  and  had  a  Meeting  at  Mallow  in  his  way 
here,  which  was  large  and  to  great  satisfaction,  lie  was  at 
our  following  first  days  Meetings  in  which  lie  was  closely 
concem'd  to  stirr  friends  up  to  a  lively  concern,  and  to 
quit  themselves  of  the  world  as  much  as  possible,  and  those 
fhat  were  behind  in  their  Duty  may  come  forward  in  a 
holy  zeal  for  the  Lord  &  his  Truth,  he  was  next  day7  at  our 
Men  and  Women's  Meetings  at  which  he  was  very  service- 
able both  in  advice  and  Counsel!  in  Truth's  affairs,  after 
Meeting  he  Went  to  Bandon,  and  next  da}'  to  Skibereen 
where  he  had  a  Meeting  which  began  at  the  third  hour, 
and  next  day  being  the  4th  day  of  the  week  had  a  Meeting 
at  Baltimore  to  great  satisfaction,  next  day  had  a  Meeting 
at  Castle  Salem  of  good  service  to  that  Tamil}',  after 
Meeting  went  to  Bandon,  and  had  a  Meeting  there  which 
began  about  the  6th  hour,  and  was  to  satisfaction,  many 
of  the  Town's  people  flocking  in,  and  next  day  being  6th 
day  had  a  Meeting  at  Kinsale  and  that  evening  came  to 
Corke,  and  stay'd  our  Pro  :  Meeting,  which,  was  the  first 
day  following,  he  stay'd  till  third  day,  and  had  a  Meeting 
with  the  Youth  of  both  sex,  and  4th  day  left  this  in  company 
with  friends  of  the  County  Tipperary,  all  the  Meetings 
he  had  with  friends  here  were  generally  to  satisfaction,  he 
labouring  fervently  for  the  good  of  friends  in  general,  being 
an  able  Minister  of  the  Gospel. 

Ist  m  20th.  Thos  Baker  was  here  at  our  Province 
Meeting  and  went  home  to  Youghajl. 

1725. 

4*  £  31st.  Kath  Miller  Hannah  Judd  Leinster,  they 
went  as  far  as  Castle  Salem,  return'd  to  our  first  days 
Meeting,  were  at  our  third  day  Meeting  &  went  hence 
to  You gh all. 

5th  g  25^.  Richard  Sealy,  Water  ford,  Berijan  Holme, 
Yorkshire,  John  Russell,  Meo.th,  Paul  Johnson,  Dublin, 
Jona  :  Barnes,  near  Birr,  Were  all  at  our  Pro  :  Meeting 
and  had  a  Meeting  with  the  Youth  of  both  Sex. 


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Daniel  Whitton,  Carlow,  John  Ashton,  near  Birr, 
vere  here  likewise  a  third  day  after  our  Province  Meeting. 

6th  m  2d.  Benjn  Holmes  Paul  Johnson  had  two  meet- 
ings at  Krnsale  on  a  first  day,  one  of  which  was  veiy  large, 
the  people  in  general  prett}r  quiet  &  to  good  satisfaction. 

7th  £  10th.  Abigail  Thompson,  Yorkshire,  Elizabeth 
Wilson,  Kendal,  came  to  Corke  from  the  Pro:  Meeting  at 
Limerick,  the}'  went  to  Bandon,  Castle  Salem,  & 
Skibereen,  in  their  return  Elizth  having  a  concern  on.  her 
Mind  to  have  a  Meeting  at  Kinsale,  notice  was  given  to 
friends  at  Corke,  some  of  whom  with  Benjn  Holme  came 
there  a  first  day  morning,  and  had  two  good  meetings  to 
general  satisfaction,  they  went  hence  to  Youghall. 

8th  5  1 8th.  Benjan  Holme  who  came  to  Corke  the  latter 
end  of  the  5th  s  in  the  service  of  Truth,  had  diverse  meetings 
amongst  friends,  also  amongst  others  in  sundry  places 
viz1,  at  Kinsale,  Bandon,  Ross,  Castle  Salem,  Skibereen, 
Baltimore,  Dunmanway,  Middleton,  Youghall,  Tallow, 
Castlelyons,  Mallow,  Caperquin,  &  Dungarvan,  in  the 
County  Tipperary  at  Carigg,  Feathard,  Clonmell,  Cashel, 
and  at  Tipperary,  he  had  Meetings  also  in  sundry  places 
in  the  County  of  Kerry,  accompanied  with  Charles  Howell, 
and  several  other  friends,  they  set  forward  from  the  Pro: 
Meeting  at  limerick,  and  went  to  Rathkeale,  had  a 
Meeting  there,  also  at  Newcastle,  Listowell,  Lixnaw, 
Ardfert,  Tralee,  where  they  had  two  large  Meetings,  from 
thence  to  Castlemain,  Kiilarny  and  Macromp,  and  had  a 
Meeting  in  each  place,  to  all  which  there  came  diverse  of 
acc1  in  the  World,  &  the  people  sober  and  attentive  to  hear 
the  testimony  of  truth  declar'd,  with  which  many  seem1  d 
affected,  &  diverse,  who  before,  had  heard  or  known  little 
of  the  principle  of  Truth  were  well  satisfied  wth  what  they 
hear'd. 

N.B.  Our  friend  Benjan  Holme  visited  the  families  of 
friends  in  this  City  generally  to  their'  satisfaction,  he  had  a 
"Meeting  also  at  Kilworth  in  his  way  to  the  Half  years 
Meeting. 

1726. 

3d  £  S}h  Elizabeth  Wilson  Jane  Gee  Leinster,  they 
were  at  our  sixth  and  first  days  Meetings,  and  went 
Westward  as  far  as  Bandon,  and  Baltimore,  and  went  lVom 
hence  to  Youghall. 


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3d  »  20ih.  Daniel  Glaister  Cumberland,  went  to 
Bandon  &  stay'd  the  Province  Meeting  here. 

25.  Richard  Sealy,  Waterford,  Mungo  Bewley, 
Edenderry,  Ephraim  Heritage,  Edenderr}7,  were  at  car 
Pro  :  Meeting,  and  had  a  Meeting  with  the  young  people, 
Mungo  and  Ephraim  were,  at  Bandon  &  Skibereen. 

5th  £  4th.  John  Estaugh  from  the  Jersies  came  here 
from  the  Yearly  Meeting  at  London,  by  way  of  Bristol, 
he  went  to  Bandon,  &  from  hence  to  Charlevill. 

Edmond  Peckover,  Norfolk,  Benjamin  Parvin,  Moat. 

Edmond  was  desirous  of  having  a  Meeting  amongst 

the  People  of  this  City,  for  which  reason  our  first  day 
afternoon  Meeting  was  deferr'd  until  the  fourth  hour, 
and  a  great  appearance  of  People  there  was  and  seem'd 
well  satisfied. 

Slh  £  .  Joseph  Gill  and  his  Wife  came  to  visit  friends 
of  this  City. 

11th  £  25th.  Joseph  Jordan  Landed  here  from 
Bristol  and  it  being  the  time  of  our  Pro:  Meeting,  stay'd 
here  that  week,  and  was  at  the  Marriage  of  Joshua  Strang- 
man  and  Ann  Pike. 

1727. 

2d  m  13th.  Thomas  Hand,  Norfolk,  Thos  Braddock, 
Ballitore,  were  at  our  Pro:  Meeting,  &  went  towards 
Limerick. 

3d  £  27th.  John  Fisher  John  Yeats,  Yorkshire,  were 
at  our  Pro  :  Meeting,  and  went  hence  to  Charlevill. 

4th  £  9th.    Paul  Johnson,  Dublin. 

14.  Henry  Atkinson,  Cumberland,  Ralph  Steven- 
son, Leinster,  were  at  our  sixth  and  first  days  Meetings, 
&  went  hence  to  Charlevill. 

24.  Hannah  Harris,  Elizth  Pirn,  Leinster,  Elizabeth 
Wilson  by  her  maiden  name,  who  came  here  some  time 
past  in  the  service  of  Truth,  in  company  with  Abigail 
Thompson,  is  now  come  the  wife  of  Jonathan  Hutchinson. 

29.  William  Backhouse  Lancashire,  was  at  our 
sixth  and  first  days  Meetings,  he  went  to  Bandon,  & 
return'd  same  day,  &  went  hence  to  Youghall,  he  was 
companion,  to  JJenry  Atkinson. 

Abigail  Boles  landed  here  this  morning 
(being  first-day)  from  Bristol  having  been  m  the  service  01 
Truth  in  several  parts  01  America,,  as  Pennsylvania,  Mar}/- 


FRIENDS  TRAVELLING  IN  IRELAND  227 


land,  Virginia,  North  Carolina,  East  and  West.  Jersies, 
New  York,  Long  Island,  Rhode  Island,  Nantucket,  Nar- 
raganset,  Boston  &  Connecticut. 

14th.  Thomas  Carr  John  Shaw  of  Lancashire,  they 
went  to  Baltimore. 

1728.  • 

3d  £  14th.     John  Ashton,  Jona  Barnes,  near  Birr. 

5th  I  io.    Paul  Johnson,  Dublin. 

Mary  Glover  Deborah  Fell  were  at  our  first  and  third 
day  Meetings,  went  to  Bandon,  and  from  hence  to  the  Pro: 
Meeting  at  limerick,  Mary  was  much  concern'd  in  Exhort- 
ing friends  to  diligence  in  preparing  for  their  latter  end. 

Elizabeth  Whartnfajby  from  Philadelphia  came  here 
from  Youghall,  and  stay'd  here  about  six  weeks,  during 
which  time  when  able,  attended  Meetings,  being  an 
ancient  Woman,  her  Companion  was  a  young  Woman, 
her  Cousin  not  Publick,  she  went  to  Bandon  and  had  a 
satisfactory  Meeting  there  and  went  hence  to  Limerick. 

20tb.  Jane  Fenn  from  Pensylvania  accompanied 
with  Abigail  Boles,  came  here  to  our  Quarterly  Meeting, 
went  Westward,  as  far  as  Baltimore,  &  had  two  large 
Meetings  at  Kinsale  on  a  first  day  to  general  satisfaction, 
went  to  Youghal,  return'd  here  and  was  at  the  Marriage 
of  Benjan  Fennel  &  Ann  Dennis,  and  went  hence  to  the 
Burial  of  Deborah  Cooke  at  Clonmel,  she  was  very  much 
concerned  for  the  sake  of  the  young  People  of  this  City. 

John  Ashton,  Jona  Barnes,  near  Birr,  was  at  said 
Qua :  Meeting. 

8br  11.  Joshua  Toft,  Staffordshire,  Henry  Francklyn, 
York,  they  had  a  Meeting  at  Kinsale  in  their  return  from 
the  West,  also  an  evening  Meeting  in  this  City  for  those  of 
another  perswasion,  which  was  large  and  to  satisfaction, 
the  service  fell  to  Joshua's  lot,  who  was  well  qualified 
for  the  Work  of  the  Ministry. 

xjth  g  6th.  Stephen  Ledgwick,  Thos  Chapman,  York- 
shire, Peter  Hudson,  Daniel  Glaister,  Cumberland. 

12th  m  2d.  Dan'  Whitton,  Cariow,  Sam1  Pearson, 
near  Edenderry,  Susanna  Morris  who  suffered  Ship- 
wreck near  Dun  gar  van,  Elizth  Jacob. 

I*t  s  7th.  James  Pillar  of  Ulster,  Rob1  Sinclair  of 
Bally  miry. 


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1729. 

2d  m  2d.  Samuel  Hopwood  from  Cornwall  landed 
here,  &  return'd  by  way  of  Limerick  4th  £  23d  to  our  Pro: 
Meeting. 

4th  £  23d.  Mary  Slater  of  Yorkshire  accompanied  by 
Mary  Fawcet  a  young  Woman  of  Cumberland,  who 
came  forth  in  a  Publick  Testimony  in  her  Journey  thro'' 
this  nation. 

John  Ashton,  Jona  Barnes,  near  Birr  were  at  said 
Pro :  Meeting. 

5th  i  iSth.  Mary  Richardson  formerly  Sympson. 
Phoebe  Tillotson,  Yorkshire. 

6ih  £  4th.  Sain1  Hopwood  return'd  again  to  our  Pro: 
meeting.    John  Heslam,  John  Scott,  Yorkshire. 

7th  £  15th.  William  Longmire,  Lancashire.  Samuel 
Stephens,  County  Wexford.  Robert  Jordan  of  Virginia 
landed  here  from  Swanzy  and  went  hence  to  Charlevill. 

8th  £,  ioth.  Ann  Splatt  Sarah  Frost  about  Exeter, 
having  visited  friends  in  this  nation,  stay'd  some  time 
for  shipping  here,  and  had  good  service  amongst  us,  and 
embarked  for  Bristol,  parting  in  love  and  unity. 

9th  i  23.  Samuel  Hopwood  return'd  again  &  took 
shipping  for  England. 

10th  t  xy%  Benjamin  Kidd  (now  married  to  the 
Widow  Basely  [Beasley])  landed  here,  was  at  diverse 
Meetings  here,  also  at  Youghall  and  Bandon,  he  had  an 
evening  Meeting  for  sake  of  the  Townspeople  wrho  were 
sober  and  attentive. 

1st  i  Ist.  John  Ashton  Jona  Barnes  were  at  our 
Pro  :  Meeting,  afterwards  return'd  home  by  wa^y  of 
Limerick,  where  John  found  a  Concern  to  come  back 
again  to  Corke,  and  accordingly  did  to  the  comfort  of  the 
well  minded. 

1730. 

4th  m  18th.  Tabitha  Horner  Mary  Cooper,  Yorkshire, 
were  at  our  sixth  and  first  day  Meetings,  went  hence  on 
second  day  to  Bandon,  and  were  at  our  third  day  Meeting, 
in  all  which  Meetings  Tabitha  was  earnestly  concern' d,  to 
stirr  friends  up  to  their  duty  in  a  religious  Worship  of  God, 
and  not  to  rest  contented  in  an  on t ward  form,  Sincerity 
at  heart  being  much  wanting.    She  was  a  Woman  well 


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qualified  for  the  work  of  the  Ministry.  They  went  hence 
to  Youghall. 

6th  £  24th.  John  Adams  landed  at  Youghall,  the  22d 
Ins1  from  Bristol,  and  stay'd  their  first  day  Meetings — 
came  here  the  24^,  went  to  Bandon  &  continued  here  'till 
the  31st  and  was  at  all  our  Meetings  during  that  time, 
&  went  hence  to  Charlevill. 

26th.  John  Ashton  Jon!  Barnes  came  here  about 
some  business  and  were  at  our  sixth  and  first  day 
Meetings. 

7th  §  2d.    E!izth  Barecroft  Elizth  Pirn  from  Leinster. 

10th  S  19th.  Susanna  Morris  who  suffered  shipwreck 
two  years  ago  near  Dungarvan,  and  travel'd  since  in  the 
service  of  Truth  in  England  &  Holland,  came  here 
accompanied  b}^  Frances  Durrans  from  Whitehaven  (not 
publick)  to  the  comfort  &  satisfaction  of  friends,  she  stay'd 
our  Pro  :  Meeting  and  third  day  Meeting  following,  and 
went  hence  to  Charlevill.  She  was  ardently  concerned 
that  friends  should  keep  in  that  plainness,  Truth  had  led 
them  into,  and  against  the  vain  custom  many  have  got 
of  wearing  Periwiggs. 

Paul  Johnson  from  Dublin  stay'd  till  our  first  day- 
Meeting  after  the  Pro  :  Meeting,  and  went  hence  to 
Charlevil  to  the  marriage  of  Nich.3  Harris's  Daughter. 

Daniel  Whitton  from  Carlow  was  at  said  Pro  : 
Meeting  and  went  hence  homeward. 

11th  £  21st.  Arthur  Jones  landed  here  from  Pensyl- 
vania,  stay'd  sometime,  &  took  shipping  for  Wales. 

23.  John  Woodrow  from  Suffolk  came  a  week  before 
the  Pro:  Meeting,  and  stay'd  till  sixth  day  morning 
after,  he  was  fervently  concern'd  for  the  growth  and 
prosperity  of  Truth,  and  in  a  Meeting  appointed  at 
Richd  Pike  Senrs  for  Ministers,  Elders,  and  members  of 
Mens  Meetings,  with  some  Women  friends,  he  was  very 
plain  and  weighty  in  his  concern,  especially  to  Elders, 
to  whom  he  signified  that  a  spiritual  Lethargy.  Dulness, 
and  Dryness  had  got  in  among  some  in  several  places,  and 
that  if  they  were  not  faithfull.  to  discharge  that  trust 
committed  to  them  in  that  station  in  the  Church,  the  Lord 
would  raise  up  some  that  were  young,  who  would  take 
their  Crown  and  honour  from  them,  &  charged  Ministers 
also  to  discharge  themselves  faithfully,  without  daubing 


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with  unttmper'd  Mortar,  the  next  day  he  found  a  Concern 
on  his  Mind,  to  have  a  Meeting  that  evening  with  some  of 
our  sober  Neighbours  at  the  Meeting  House  who  gather'd 
about  the  6th  hour,  and  were  sober  and  attentive  both 
to  his  and  friends  satisfaction. 

I73I. 

Ist  £  27,  Anna  Gill,  Dublin,  Mary  Harris,  Mount- 
rath,  came  some  time  before  our  Pro:  Meeting  went  to 
Youghall  and  return' d  to  ye  Pro  :  Meeting  &  went  hence 
to  ye  Count}7  Tipperary. 

5th  I  1'.  Thomas  Fell  North  of  England  was  at  our 
sixth  &  first  day's  Meetings,  he  was  earnestly  concern' d 
that  friends  may  keep  up  to  the  ancient  Testimony  of 
Truth,  in  all  things  relating  to  our  holy  Profession,  that  as 
Truth  is  now  the  same  as  it  was  in  the  beginning  when  we 
were  gather'd  to  be  a  people,  so  it  will  not  allow  that 
in  us  now  that  it  once  disalow'd,  Pie  went  hence  to 
Youghall. 

5tb.  Jane  Gee  Elizth  Pease  were  at  our  third  day 
Meeting,  Jane  stay'd  till  after  the  first  day  Meetings, 
and  was  at  Womens  Meeting  on  second  day,  then  went 
to  Castle  Salem  to  see  her  Sister  Dorothy  Morris,  E!izth 
return'd  to  Limerick  the  sixth  day  before. 

22.  Mary  Ellerton,  York.  Marg*  Copeland,  West- 
morland, came  here  from  the  Pro:  Meeting  at  Limerick, 
stay'd  here  some  time  and  went  to  Bandon,  Mary  was 
earnestly  concerned  for  the  growth  and  prosperity  of  the 
Church,  and  against  a  libertine  spirit  in  some,  saying  they 
Hck'd  up  what  their  forefathers  had  disembogued,  and  laid 
waste  what  they  had  enoeavour'd  to  support,  alluding  to 
the  vain  fashions  of  the  World  in  one,  and  the  testimony  of 
Truth  in  the  other,  they  had.  a  Meeting  with  the  young 
People  of  both  sex,  and  went  hence  to  Youghall. 

7th  I  8th.  Joseph  Glaister  an  ancient  friend  from 
Cumberland,  had  but  one  Meeting  here  On  a  sixth  day, 
notice  being  given  before,  to  have  as  full  a  Meeting  as 
conveniently  might  be,  because  for  some  reasons  he  could 
not  stay  longer,  he  went  hence  to  Charleviil. 

John  Ashton  Jona  Barnes  came  here  from  the  Pro  : 
Meeting  at  Watcrford  about  some  business,  and  were  at 
several  Meetings  as  they  came  in  course. 


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8th  m  10th.  Mungo  Bewley  from  Leinster  came  hero 
to  our  Pro  :  Meeting  and  had  good  service  amongst  friends. 

ntb  I  22d.  Arthur  Jones  John  Ashton  came  from 
the  Pro  :  Meeting  at  Mountmelick,  by  way  of  Limerick, 
the}7  were  at  our  first  day  Meetings,  and  third  day  following 
John  return'd  homeward  after  Meeting,  Arthur  continued 
here  some  days  longer,  went  to  Bandon  &  from  hence 
accompanied  by  Geo :  Bewley  into  the  County  of  Tipperary, 
and  Waterford,  and  return'd  in  the  12th  £  by  way  of 
Youghal  to  our  Province  Meeting,  and  after  took  shipping 
foi  Bristol. 

1732. 

Ist  i  .  Andrew  Cramer  a  Pensylvania  Friend,  came 
here  and  had  good  service  amongst  friends,  he  went  to 
Bandon,  and  hence  to  Limerick.  He  was  an  High  German 
by  birth. 

4th  £  17th.  Edward  Tylee  from  Bristol,  Dan1  Hughson 
Leinster,  John  Ashton  Ditto,  were  at  our  Pro :  Meeting,  and 
went  to  Bandon.     Edwd  &  Daniel  went  hence  to  Limerick. 

7th  I  8th.  John  Cadwalader,  Ann  Roberts,  .Mary 
Penill,  landed  here  from  Pensylvania,  being  Inhabitants 
of  yt  Province.  Ann  and  Mary  stay'd  here,  some 
Meetings,  and  had  good  service  amongst  friends,  &  took 
shipping  here  for  Wales,  John  continued  longer  and  went 
to  Bandon  and  Youghal!,  came  back  from  thence.  & 
stay'd  our  first  and  third  day  Meetings,  and  went  hence 
to  Charlevil  the  27th  Ins*  in  order  to  visit  the  Nation  ; 
He  was  a  man  sound  in  doctrine,  and  of  a  reaching 
Testimony,  as  were  also  the  two  Women  friends, 

26th.  Andrew  Cramer  return'd  from  Limerick,  after 
he  had  visited  several  parts  of  the  Nation  and  went  hence 
to  Youghail. 

8th  £  .  Daniel  Badger,  Bristol,  Jon  a  Barnes,  Leinster, 
came  here  two  days  before  the  Pro :  Meeting  Daniel 
went  hence  to  Youghal,  He  was  a  Young  man  well  qualified 
for  the  Work  of  the  Ministry. 

John  Ashton  came  to  said  Pro  :  Meeting. 

Andrew  Cramer  after  he  stay'd  some  time  at  Youghal, 
return'd  again  to  said  Pro:  Meeting,  he  was  not  so  easy 
to  friends  in  this  and  the  last  Visit,  as  he  was  at  his  first, 
he  return'd  again  to  Youghal  in  order  to  the  Half  yeafrB 


232    FRIENDS  TRAVELLING  IN  IRELAND 


Meeting  where  friends  had  some  Occasion  to  deal  with 
him. 

Ist  £  .  John  Cadwalader  after  he  had  visited  most 
parts  of  the  Nation,  retnrn'd  here  again  where  he  remain 'd 
sick  for  some  time,  after  his  recover}/  he  went  hence  to 
Wat  erf  or  d,  in  order  to  the  Half  years  Meeting,  He  had 
a  meeting  at  Kins  [ale]. 

1733. 

3d  Joseph  Gill  from  Dublin  came  to  give  this 
province  a  Visit,  he  had  good  service  amongst  us  to  the 
comfort  and  satisfaction  of  friends,  he  had  Meetings  at 
Bandon  and  Kinsale,  and  went  hence  to  Youghali. 

5th  I  't*K  Elizabeth  Simkins,  Northumberland,  Alee 
Featherstone,  Northamptonshire,  they  went  to  Bandon 
and  hence  to  Youghal. 

16.  Nicholas  Lock  from  Leinster  came  here  to  visit 
friends,  with  whom  the}7  were  well  satisfied,  he  went  to 
Bandon  and  hence  to  Limerick. 

25th.  John  King,  Cheshire,  Eleazer  Sheldon,  Leinster, 
were  at  our  sixth  and  first  days  Meetings,  they  went  to 
Bandon,  and  hence  to  Youghali. 

6*  S  6^.  Mary  Wyatt,  Essex,  Eliz^  Baker  near 
Bristol,  landed  here  from  Bristol  and  had  sundry  Meetings 
amongst  us,  to  the  Comfort  and  satisfaction  of  the  well 
minded,  the}'  went  hence  to  Limerick,  and  had  a  Meeting 
at  Youghali — Mary's  son  and  daughter  accompanied  her 
in  this  Journey. 

7th  £  22d.  Paul  Johnson  Dublin,  accompany'd  by 
Rob*  Scott  came  here  to  visit  friends  to  our  Province 
Meeting,  &  stay'd  first  day's  Meetings  following. 

Mary  Penill  who  landed  here  in  the  Seventh  Month 
last  year,  w^  John  Cadwalader  and  Ann  Roberts  from 
Pensylvania,  came  now  (accompany'd  by  Grace  Skyrin 
from  Westmorland)  after  she  had  been  thro'  several 
parts  of  England  and  Wales,  they  had  good  service 
amongst  us  to  the  Comfort  and  Satisfaction  of  the  honest 
hearted  ;  Mary  said  the  Lord  was  about  to  Concern  some 
that  were  young  in  years  in  that  Meeting,  and  woud 
endue  thorn  with  a  double  portion  of  his  Spirit,  if  they 
were  fa  it  hi  nil,  She  was  largely  open'd  in  the  Mysteries  of 
Gods  Kingdom,  being  well  qualified  for  the  Work  of  the 


I?  • 

I  ■  ■  -  •  •  ' 

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1  ■  ■ 

Ministry,  it  was  the  time  of  our  Province  Meeting  ;  They 

went  hence  to  Youghall. 

Eliztb   Jacob    came  from   the  County    of  Carlow 

accompanied  by  Samuel  Watson  to  said  Province  Meeting 

and  went  hence  also  to  Youghall. 

9^  £  22d.  Abigail  Boles  landed  here  from  Bristol, 
I  after  she  had  been  in  Truths  service  in  several  parts  of 
I  England,  She  continued  here  a  week  and  had  several 
I  Meetings  amongst  friends  to  their  Comfort,  and  a 
I      Meeting  also  appointed  at  the  Meeting  House  for  the  Burial 

of  Anfi  Derfeindren  the  28th  Ins1  which  was  to  good  satis- 
1  faction,  the  People  being  sober  and  attentive  to  hear  Truth 
1  declar'd. 

27.  Elizabeth  Baker  who  accompanied  Mary 
I  Wyatt  here  last  6th  S,  came  this  day  from  the  County 
fc  Tipperary,  where  she  left  her  Companion  with  her  Son 
I  who  was  taken  sick  there,  she  took  ship  here  the  first  of 
the  tenth  month  for  Bristol. 

iotb  £  6th.  Mary  Y/yatt  with  her  Son  arid  Daughter 
together"  with  John  Ashton  came  here  this  day  from 
the  Count}7  of  Tipperary,  John  stay'd  here  several  Meetings 
and  was  with  Mary,  at  a  Meeting  at  Kinsale  cc  Bandon 
which  she  appointed  and  had  good  service  thereat,  She 
had  also  two  large  Evening  Meetings  in  our  Meeting 
House,  which  were  very  full  each  time,  &  the  People 
sober  and  attentive  to  hear  Truth  declard,  "several  of 
note  being  there,  These  Meetings  were  to  the  satisfaction 
of  Friends  and  others,  &  concluded  in  a  solemn  manner. 
Mary  continued  here  labouring  in  the  Work  of  the 
Ministry  in  our  several  Meetings  'till  the  sixth  of  the  11th  » 
waiting  a  Passage  to  Bristol,  in  all  which  Meetings  she  was 
earnestly  engag'd  for  the  Promotion  of  Truth,  and  that 
things  might  be  in  good  order  amongst  us,  being  a  Woman 
sound,  and  lively  in  her  Testimony  After  she  went  to 
Cove  in  order  to  take  ship,  she  continued  there  from  Ist 
clay,  evening,  to  sixth  day  following,  then  came  in  the 
evening  to  Corke,  &  went  next  morning  to  Youghall, 
where  she  had  good  service  with  friends  and  an  Evening 
Meeting  with  the  Inhabitants,  which  was  large  and  to 
general  satisfaction,  the  Wind  still  contrary,  She  came 
to  Corke,  was  at  our  3d  day  Meeting  &  next  day  sail'd 
for  Bristol, 


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11th  £  26th.  William  Slater  from  Yorkshire,  came  here 
to  our  Pro:  Meeting,  and  had  good  service  amongst  friends, 
he  was  at  the  Marriage  of  John  Dennis  Junr  and  Sarah 
Newenham,  where  was  a  great  concourse  of  People,  and 
many  of  Note,  which,  considering  the  Number  the  Meeting 
ended  pretty  orderly.  He  was  a  plain  honest  hearted 
friend  and  concern'd  for  the  growth  and  prosperity  of 
Truth,  &  went  hence  to  Youghall. 

Ist  I  r/-h.  Nicholas  Lock  came  to  our  Pro:  Meeting, 
and  stay'd  a  week  after,  with  whom  friends  were  well 
satisfied.  He  went  hence  to  Youghall,  in  order  for 
Water  ford. 

*734- 

2(1  £ 6th.  Thos  Frethwaite  [Fairthwaite]  from  the 
Borders  of  Yorkshire  came  here,  was  at  our  first  day 
Meetings,  went  on  second  day  to  Bandon,  came  back  that 
Evening,  and  was  at  our  third  day  Meeting,  he  was  a  Plain 
honest  hearted  friend  and  had  a  good  gift  in  the  Ministry 
and  went  hence  to  Charlevill. 

3d  i  26th.  Mungo  Bewdey  Sam1  Stevenson  landed 
at  Kinsale  from  Philadelphia,  they  were  near  two  years 
in  America  in  the  service  of  Truth,  came  this  day  to  Corke, 
and  continued  here  till  the  Pro  :  Meeting,  which  was  a  week 
after,  at  which  Mungo  had  good,  service  to  the  Comfort 
&  satisfaction  of  friends,  and  at  the  conclusion  of 
the  meeting  of  Business,  desir'd  frds  of  the  Women s 
Meeting  then  sitting  may  Join  the  Meeting,  which  was 
accordingly  done,  &  very  suitable  Council  &  Advice  given 
to  each,  they  went  hence  into  the  County  of  Tipperary. 

4th  £  1  st.  Mary  Harris  Sarah  Dickson  from  the 
North  of  England,  were  at  the  aforesaid  Pro :  Meeting 
and  went  hence  to  Youghall. 

John  Cadwalader  landed  here  from  Bristol  and 
was  at  said  Pro :  Meeting,  Friends  were  glad  to  see 
him  again,  and  were  comforted  in  his  service  amongst 
us.  He  went  to  Limerick  and  return'd  again  in  order 
for  Bristol  where  he  intended  to  embark  for  Pennsylvania. 

§#iiz8*b0  Nicholas  Lock  came  here  from  the  Pro: 
Meeting  at  Limerick,  stay'd  about  twelve  days  had  good 
service  amongst  friends  and  went  hence  to  Youghall. 

8ih  g  8th.  Samuel  Chan[d]lor  from  Bristol  landed  here 
and  came  to  Meeting  after  it  was  gather'd  being  the  time 


FRIENDS  TRAVELLING  IN  IRELAND  .  235 


of  our  Pro:  Meeting.  He  stay'd  till  after  our  first  clay's 
Meeting  and  went  hence  to  Youghali. 

io^h  *  1.  Elizabeth  Pease  being  here  at  the  Pro : 
Meeting  with  Sarah  Pearce,  had  a  Concern  on  her  Mind 
to  have  a  Meeting  at  Kinsale,  which  friends  approved  of, 
and  being  accompanied  by  Cha :  Howell,  Eliz*h  Tomey,  & 
several  others  from  Corke,  they  had  two  meetings  there 
on  a  first  day,  the  latter  being  large  &  to  satisfaction, 
except  some  disturbance  made  by  a  Person  who  had  taken 
too  much  strong  liquor,  they  went  hence  to  Youghali, 
stav'd  our  first  dav  Meeting  &  return'd  home. 

28th.  Samuel  Stevenson  from  the  County  Wexford 
came  to  our  Pro :  Meeting. 

Elizth  Jacob  came  to  said  Pro :  Meeting,  &  stay'd 
our  first  day  Meetings  following  &  had  good  service 
amongst  us,  whose  Concern  and  labour  of  Love  hope  will 
be  minded  by  the  Honest  hearted,  She  went  hence  to  the 
County  of  Tipperary. 

1735* 

3d  £  24th.  Rowland  Wilson  from  Westmorland  came 
here  this  day  and  was.  at  our  first  day  Meeting  where  he 
had  good  service  and  was  concern'd  for  the  growth  and 
prosperity  of  Truth,  but  not  being  thoroughly  clear,  there 
was  a  Meeting  appointed  Second  day  Afternoon  at  the 
4th  hour,  wherein  he  discharg'd  himself  faithfully,  and 
spoke  home  to  the  states  of  some,  He  was  sound  and 
weighty  in  his  testimony,  and  went  hence  next  day  to 
Limerick. 

4th  i  23d.  Mary  Lewis  Rebecca  Minshall  from  Chester 
County  in  the  Province  of  Pensylvania,  landed  here 
this  day  from  Bristol  and  continued  here  above  two 
weeks,  thev  went  to  Bandoii  and  Youehall,  and  return'd 

'J  O  ' 

in  order  to  proceed  on  their  Journey  to  Limerick.  They 
were  Women  well  gifted  in  the  Ministry  and  divided  the 
-  Word  aright,  speaking  plain  &  home  to  the  disobedient 
&  Gainsayers,  but  tender  over  the  Seed  of  God  in  any. 

6**  1  2d.  Abigail  Watson  formerly  Boles  came  here 
with  her  husband  Sam1  Watson  and  had  several  Meetings 
with  friends,  wherein  she  was  very  plain  and  exalted 
Truths  testimony  over  the  heads  of  Libertines  and  dis- 
orderly Walkers,  she  also  had  a  Meeting  at  Bandon  and 


236    FRIENDS  TRAVELLING  IN  IRELAND 

Kinsale  to  good  satisfaction  &  went  hence  into  the 
County  of  Tipperary. 

11th.  Nicholas  Lock  came  here  and  had  good  service 
amongst  friends,  he  return'd  by  Limerick. 

28th.  Sarah  Jackson  who  was  here  in  the  year 
1724  with  Julian  FranMandf  came  now  in  company  with 
a  young  Woman  Sybil  Atkinson  both  from  Lancaster 
they  had  several  Meetings  with  friends  and  went  hence 
to  the  Province  Meeting  at  Limerick. 

10th  |  4th.  Rebecca  Minshal  above,  came  in  Company 
with  Jonas  Devonshire  &  George  Bewley  from  Dublin, 
her  Companion  Iviaiy  Lewis  went  from  thence  to  England, 
but  Rebecca  having  a  concern  on  her  Mind  to  visit  this 
place  again,  came  with  friends  as  aforesaid,  and  the  same 
Concern  remain'd  on  her  Mind  to  visit  each  Family  of 
Friends  in  this  City,  which  she  accomplished  accordingly, 
to  general  satisfaction  some  Men  and  Women  friends 
accompanying  her  in  said  Visit,  she  went  hence  the  29th 
of  11th  Month  into  the  County  of  Tipperary. 

I2lh  i  21.  Benjamin  Holme  came  to  our  Pro  :  Meeting 
and  stay'd  here  that  week,  first  day  morning  after  he  with 
Cha :  Howell  and  other  friends  of  Corke  went  to  Kinsale, 
and  had  two  large  Meetings  there  y*  day  to  pretty  good 
satisfaction,  from  thence  went  to  Bandon  and  had  a  large 
Meeting  in  the  Town  House  Secd  day  afternoon  thence  to 
Clonikelty,  Timoleague,  Ross,  Skibereen  &  Baltimore  and 
had  Meetings  in  each  place,  thence  to  Dunmanaway  and 
had  a  Meeting  there,  so  to  Corke  and  had  a  large 
Melting  with  the  Town  folk  first  day  afternoon,  thence 
on  third  day  afternoon  in  Company  with  other  friends 
to  Castle  Lyons,  and  next  morning  to  Tallow  where  he  had 
a  large  Meeting  in  the  Town  House,  and  same  evening 
another  at  the  Inn  at  Capoquin,  next  day  had  another 
full  Meeting  at  the  Inn  at  Dunr/arvan,  next  dav  being  sixth 
day  of  the  week,  had  a  Meeting  in  the  evening  at  Youghall, 
First  day  had  a  large  Meet?  there  in  the  evening  with  the 
Town  folk,  next  day  in  his  way  to  Corke  had  a.  Meeting 
at  Mi  diet  on,  third  day  he  had  a  large  Meeting  at  Corke, 
occasional  by  the  marriage  of  John  Taverner  and  Ann  Pike 
daughter  of  Richd  Pike.  He  went  after  to  Mallow, 
Doneraile,  Charlevil  &  had  Meetin gs  there  &  so  to 
Limerick,  &  ret  urn' d  to  our  Pro:  Meeting  stay'd  that  week 


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and  Jiad  a  large  Meeting  with  the  Town's  People  on  first 
day  evening,  He  went  hence  to  the  County  of  Tipperary, 
and  had  a  Meeting  in  his  way  at  Castle  Lyons,  in  most  of 
which  Meetings,  the  People  seem'd  desirous  to  hear 
Truth  declard  and  were  pretty  sober  and  attentive. 

1736. 

3d  I  24th.  Ruth  Courtney  from  the  North  of  Ireland 
came  here  to  visit  friends,  which  was  acceptable,  She 
went  to  Bandon,  was  at  our  third  &  first  days  Meetings 
and  went  hence  to  Charlevil. 

5th  ©  22.  Deborah  Leighton  formerly  Fell,  Rebecca 
Weaver,  North  of  England,  was  at  our  6th  &  first  day 
Meetings  and  went  hence  to  Youghall. 

6th  I  j^th.  Robert  Sinclair,  Ballymurry  came  here 
to.visit  friends  and  went  hence  to  Youghall. 

7th  £  10th.  Elizth  Jacob  oi  Waterfprd  came  on  purpose 
to  visit  friends,  and  stay'd.  our  Pro  :  Meeting,  bad  several 
Meetings  and  good  service  with  us  and  went  hence  to  her 
Dwelling  aforesaid. 

21.  Elizth  Barcroft,  Hannah  Harris,  from  Leinster 
went  hence  into  the  County  of  Tipperary. 

8th  £  23.  Benjan  Holme  came  here  from  the  County  of 
Kerry,  where  he  had  sundry  Meetings  with  the  Inhabi- 
tants of  several  towns  in  said  County, 

10th  i  9th.  James  Bolt  of  Bristol,  came  here  and  was 
at  our  Pro:  Meeting,  stay'd  till  the  25th  Ins1  &  took  ship 
for  Bristol,  He  came  over  about  some  business  of  his 
own,  and  took  the  Opportunity  of  some  meetings  in  his 
way  and  was  serviceable  to  friends. 

*737- 

2d  £  16th.  John  Hunt  a  young  man  from  London 
came  here  to  our  Pro  :  Meeting  and  went  hence  to  Yonghal] 
in  order  for  the  half  years  Meeting  in  Company  with 
George  Bewley.  He  spoke  Prophetically  of  the  herds 
Work  to  be  carried  on  in  the  Earth,  and  if  those  who  are 
called  to  be  his  people  did  not  answer  the  call,  he  would 
call  in  others  who  shcu'd  take  their  places  and  succeed 
them,  when  the  children  of  the  Kingdom  may  be  shut  cut. 

4th  £  25th.  Joseph  Taylor  from  Durham,  came  here 
and  was  at  our  fust  day  meetings,  his  service  was  very 


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acceptable  to  friends,  being  well  qualified  for  the  work 
of  the  Ministry.    He  went  hence  to  Youghall. 

27.  Nicholas  Lock  came  here  again  in  his  old  age 
to  visit  friends,  whose  service  was  acceptable  and  went 
hence  to  the  Pro  :  Meeting  at  Limerick. 

5*h  £  t6&.  Christopher  Wilson  from  Cumberland, 
came  here  from  the  Pro  :  Meeting  at  Limerick,  stay'd  our 
first  day  Meetings  and  went  hence  to  Youghall. 

23.  Hannah  Featberston,  Sarah  Dickson,  from  the 
North  of  England,  the  latter  was  here  in  1734  with  Mary 
Harris,  came  now  in  company  with  H.  Featherstone, 
She  was  much  improv'd  in  her  Gift  since  her  last  Visit, 
They  had  both  good  service  amongst  us  which  hope  will 
be  remember'd  &  wfent  hence  to  Youghall. 

6th  £  31st.  David  Hall,  Tho*  Anderson,  from  York- 
shire,  the  latter  a  blind  man,  yet  had  a  large  and  edifying 
Gift  in  the  Ministry,  they  were  both  well  qualified  for 
that  service  and  their  labour  of  love  acceptable  to  friends. 

7^  w  17.  Elizth  Jacob  came  here  to  the  Marriage 
of  Fras  Penrose  to  Elizth  Beale  Daughter  of  Tho3  Beale, 
which  was  accomplish* d  ye  20th  Ins1.  She  stay'd  here 
'till  after  the  Pro  :  Meeting  and  went  hence  into  the  County 
of  Tipperary. 

8th  £  Ist.  Joseph  Gill,  Garcrd  Hastinge  [Hassen] 
from  Dublin  were  at  our  Pro  :  Meeting,  the  latter  a  Dutch 
man  born  in  Utrecht  in  Holland,  he  was  convinc'd  about  six 
years  since  and  publickly  concernd  about  two  years, 
He  was  not  very  expert  in  the  English  Tongue  but  very 
warm  against  a  libertine  Spirit  ;  Joseph  was  much 
concern'd  for  the  prosperity  of  Truth,  and  that  things 
may  be  kept  in  good  order  amongst  us,  they  went  hence 
to  Limerick. 

22d.  Tho3  Areskin  from  Edinburgh  in  Scotland 
came  here  was  at  our  first  day  Meetings,  went  second 
day  to  Bandon  &  notice  being  given  to  friends  of  Corke 
Meeting,  he  had  a  pretty  large  Meeting  on  his  return  a 
third  day,  where  he  was  concern'd  to  stirr  up  Friends  in 
a  religious  concern  that  they  may  come  to  know  the 
intevmd  work  of  Religion  upon  their  Hearts,  that  none 
may  sit  down  satisfied  with  the  Image  or  representation 
thereof,  but  witness  it  in  reality  and  Truth,  He  was  an 
Orthodox  Preacher  of  the  Gospel,  and.  well  accomplish'*:! 


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for  the  Work  of  ye  Ministry  yet  humble  and  low  and 
had  self  of  little  or  no  reputation  :  He  went  hence  to 
Charlevill. 

10th  m  17th.  Edmond  Reay  from  the  North  of 
England  a  Young  Man  about  five  years  convinc'd  of  Truth 
he  stay'd  our  first  days  Meetings,  and  went  hence  to 
Youghall  &  Waterford,  and  return'd  with  Waterford 
friends  to  the  Qua1?  Pro:  Meeting  where  he  had  good 
service,  He  went  back  with  the  said  Friends  to  Waterford. 

12th  w  4th.  John  Ashton,  Jona.  Barries  came  to  our 
Pro :  Meeting  L  vis: led  the  Meetings  of  friends  in  this 
province,  whose  labour  of  love  was  acceptable. 

2d  m  14th.  May  Drummond  landed  here  from  Bristol 
and  was  at  our  Pro:  Meeting,  the  first  day  following,  & 
continued  here  about  seven  weeks  in  which  time  she  had 
Meetings  at  Kinsale,  Bandon  and  Youghall  and  several 
large  Meetings  in  Corke,  The  People  sober  and  attentive, 
and  a  large  Meeting  at  Mallow  in  her  way  to  Limerick, 
Her  concern  chiefly  tended  to  those  of  other  perswasions 
who  seemed  well  satisfied  therewith. 

5**>  £  8th.  Richard  Dickenson  from  the  North  of 
England  came  here  &  went  hence  towards  Limerick. 

15.  Alee  Featherstone  Jane  Dickson  North  of 
England,  came  here  and  stay'd  our  first  day  Meetings 
&  went  hence  to  Youghall,  They  were  sharp  in  their 
testimony  against  wrong  Spirits  and  those  that  were  given 
up  to  ease  and  indifference  in  things  relating  to  the  affairs 
of  the  Church. 

May  Drummond  after  visiting  some  Meetings  in 
this  and  Leinster  Province  came  from  Mountmclick 
into  the  County  of  Tipperary  visited  the  Meetings  in 
that  County,  and  came  from  CI  on  in  ell  to  Kilshanick,  a 
-Country  Seat  of  Jonas  Devonshire's  where  she  continued 
from  second  to  seventh  day,  when  hearing  of  the  death  of 
Richd  Pike  Senr,  came  that  day  to  Corke  and  the  corpse 
being  brought  to  the  Meeting  House,  that  evening  there 
were  several  met  to  whom  she  had  an  Opportunity  to 
declare  Truth,  She  continued  here  til)  the  Marriage  of 
]<ichd  Newenham  &  Sarah  Devonshire,  which  was  on  the 
25^ Ins4,  but  theCrow'd  &  throng  of  People  wa"  so  great, 


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she  had  little  service  amongst  them,  In  about  a  week- 
after  she  went  to  Waterford. 

27.  Abigail  Watson  with  her  husband  Samuel  came 
here  from  the  Pro:  Meeting  at  Waterford  &  had  good 
service  amongst  us  and  went  hence  into  the  County  of 
Tipperary. 

6th  s  2d.  Elizth  Pease  came  here  from  said  Pro  :  Meet- 
ing to  visit  friends  whose  service  was  acceptable  to  the 
honest  minded. 

7th  m  Qth.  Elizth  Jacob  came  here  from  the  Pro : 
Meeting  at  Limerick  had  several  Meetings  with  friends  to 
their  comfort  and  satisfaction  and  went  hence  into  the 
County  of  Tipperary. 

30th.  John  Ashton  came  here  with  Thos  Merritt  a 
young  man  lately  convinc'd  who  went  a  servant  to  Geo. 
BeMriey,  John  stay'd  a  week  and  had  Meetings  with 
friends. 

9th  n.  22d.  Ruth  Courtney  Susanna  Hudson  Landed, 
here  from  New  England,  they  were  in  the  service  of 
Truth  in  America  for  about  Eighteen  months  and  now 
retuni'd  safe  to  their  Native  Country.  They  stay'd  here 
about  a  week  and  had  good  service  amongst  friends  &  went 
hence  directly  to  the  North  of  Ireland  the  place  of  their 
abode. 

10th  £  14*.  Edward  Tjdee  from  Bristol  landed  here 
this  day  stay'd  here  about  two  weeks,  had  a  Meeting  at 
Bandon  and  Kinsale,  also  with  the  Youth  of  both  Sex,  his 
service  was  acceptable,  and  to  the  comfort  of  friends,  and 
hope  it  will  be  remember'd  by  the  honest  minded.  He  was 
ardently  concern'd  for  the  Youth,  that  they  may  come  to 
enjoy  Truth  for  themselves,  and  went  hence  to  YoughalL 

12^  I  17th.    John  Ashton,  Jona  Barnes,  Paul  Johnson, 
came  here  to  our  Quarterly  Meeting  with  Sam1  Watson 
from  the  County  of  Carlow,  to  pay  us  a  visit,  which  was 
kindly  receiv'd  by  us,  and  hope  their  concern  &  labour 
of  love  will  not  be  forgotten. 

1739- 

3d  2  27.  Philip  Elliott  a  young  man  from  London 
who  exceeded  many  in  the  Gaiety  and  Vanity  of  tin:,  life, 
inf  ill  the  Lord  in  his  Lender  mercy  visited,  him  and  called 
him  by  Ins  grace,  and  as  he  gave  up  in  Obedience  to  the 


FRIENDS  TRAVELLING  IN  IRELAND  241 


Heavenly  Call,  he  forsook  his  former  way  of  life,  his  old 
Associates  &  Companions  and  took  up  the  Cross,  denying 
himself  of  those  follies  and  vanities  he  was  before  captivated 
with,  to  ye  Wonder  and  amazement  of  man}7  who  were 
acquainted  with  him  before,  He  came  over  to  see  some 
Relations  in  the  North  of  Ireland,  and  to  settle  Correspon- 
dents in  Corke  and  Dublin,  and  as  the  Lord  was  pleas'd  to 
open  his  Mouth  in  a  Publick  Testimony  before  he  left 
home  he  had  Meetings  in  some  places  in  his  way,  and 
tho'  but  short  in  the  expressive  part  of  his  Testimony 
ye£  was  attended  with  a  good  degree  of  life  &  power  to  the 
comfort  and  satisfaction  of  friends,  He  returned  hence  for 
Dublin  again,  in  order  to  take  ship  for  England. 

Note.    He  was  educated  amongst  Friends. 

7th  £  22.  Ruth  Courtney,  Susanna  Hudson,  who 
landed  here  from  America  22d:  9th  §  last,  and  came  from 
their  dwelling  in  the  North  of  Ireland  to  visit  friends  here, 
whose  service  was  refreshing  to  the  well  minded.  The}' 
went  hence  to  Youghall. 

29.  Eleazer  Sheldon  Jum.  Abrra  Fuller.  Two 
young  men  from  Dublin  came  here  to  visit  us,  the  former 
Son  to  Eleazer  Sheldon  deceas'd,  the  other  served  his 
time  to  Geo :  Bewley  of  this  City,  their  service  was 
acceptable  to  friends  &  went  hence  to  Limerick. 

10th  1 4th.  Lydia  Lancaster  Elizth  Wilson  came 
here  two  or  three  days  before  our  Pro  :  Meeting  where 
they  had.  good  service,  being  concern'd  that  Friends  may 
grow  up  in  Truth  &  in  the  saving  knowledge  of  our  Lord 
&  Saviour  Jesus  Christ,  they  went  hence  to  Limerick. 

11111  |  4th.  John  Erwin  John  Bell  from  the  North 
of  England  came  here  in  the  service  of  Truth  to  the 
comfort  of  Friends  &  went  hence  to  Youghall. 

1740. 

Eliztb  Pease  Bliz*  Torney  Junr.  Limerick  came 
on  purpose  to  visit  our  Meeting  and  continued  here  ab' 
5  weeks,  they  went  once  to  Youghall,  Eliz*h  Pease  was  at 
times  prophetically  engag'd  that  the  Lord  would  try  the 
foundations  of  many  who  made  a  profession  of  Truth, 
but  did  not  witness  the.  operation  thereof,  but  sat  at  ease 
in  the  enjoyment  of  the  good  things  of  this  life.  They 
went  hence  to  Limerick. 


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4th  £  4th.  Michael  Light  foot  New  Garden  in  Pensyl- 
vania,  John  Hunt,  London,  who  was  here  in  the  Service 
of  Truth  in  the  2d  £  1737,  and  went  the  year  following  in 
the  same  service  to  America,  and  return'd  now  with  our 
friend  M,  Lightfoot,  who  is  an  able  Minister  of  the  Gospel, 
and  deep  in  the  mysteries  of  God's  Kingdom,  his  testi- 
mony searching  and  tendering,  speaking  home  to  the 
states  and  Conditions  of  Friends  dividing  the  Word 
aright,  he  went  hence  to  Limerick,  John  went  hence  to 
England. 

21.  Moses  Aklrklge  New  England  came  &  stay'd 
our  first  and  Third  day's  Meetings  had  a  Meeting  at  Ban  don, 
&  had.  good  service  amongst  friends  &  went  hence  to 
Youghall. 

28.  Joseph  Gill  andElizlh  Gill  his  wife,  came  to  visit 
friends  of  this  province,  the}^  came  from  the  County  of 
Tipperary  to  Corke  and  had  good  service  amongst  us, 
Joseph  being  concern'd  in  Love  and  Zeal  for  the  growth  & 
prosperity  of  the  Church,  and  spoke  home  to  the  state  of 
our  Meeting,  They  went  hence  to  Youghall  to  the  Pro: 
Meeting  at  Waterford. 

5th  £  10th.  Abigail  Watson  came  here  from  the 
Province  Meeting  at  Waterford,  and  stay'd  till  the  six- 
teenth Ins'-.  Ker  labour  of  love  and  Concern  for  the 
welfare  of  Zion  was  acceptable,  and  hope  will  be 
serviceable  to  the  Well  minded. 

7th  £  27th.  Samuel.  Bownas  an  Eminent  Friend  of  the 
West  of  England,  who  had  been  here  about  33  years  ago 
and  with  him  the  aforesaid  Michael  Lightfoot  from 
Pensylvania,  At  the  Meeting  of  Ministers  preceding  the 
Quarter!}7  Meeting  Samuel  was  suitably  and  divinely 
open'd  in  Exhortation  and  Counsel. 

1 741. 

4th  £  ibto.  Mary  Smith  Mary  Ellington  fiom  the 
East  of  England,  they  landed  at  Dublin  about  the  time  of 
the  half  years  Meeting,  They  were  exceedingly  reserv'd 
in  Conversation,  and  as  large  in  Publick  Testimony,  the 
latter  having  thereby  given  no  small  offence  in  the  parting 
Meeting  at  Dublin,  the  spreading  of  which  ace1  bloek'd 
up  their  way,  &  made  their  passage  thro'  this  nation 
seemingly  dull  and  difficult. 


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Elizabeth  Pease  came  to  the  Pro  :  Meeting  which 
the  two  aforesaid  Women  seem'd  purposely  to  avoid, 
stay'd  some  time  after  they  went  away,  being  tenderly 
concern'd  for  the  Promotion  of  love  and  faithfulness, 
and  her  service  generally  acceptable. 

5th  $  11th.  Nicholas  Da  vies  Henry  Fowler  London 
Their  Conversation  and  Ministry  edifying  open  and 
generally  well  receiv'd  of  Friends,  Henry  was  a  weakly 
young  Man,  having  been  hurt  by  unskilfull  management. 

6th  m  i.  Abraham  Fuller  Nathan  Beeby,  Two  voting 
men  from  Dublin,  said  Nathan  married  to  Abrm3  sister 
died  of  a  Fever  about,  four  months  after. 

8th  i  12th.  Samuel  Sheldon  a  young  man  of  Water- 
ford  being  at  our  Pro:  Meeting  labour'd  honestly  amongst 
us  in  the  Work  of  the  Ministry. 

10th  £  28th.  Thos  Gawthrop  from  Westmoreland, 
He  had  formerly  been  a  Soldier  five  years  but  having 
since  been  converted  and  baptis'd,  is  now  grown  an  able 
Minister  of  Christ  Jesus  rightly  dividing  the  Word  of 
Truth,  at  our  sixth  day  Meeting  his  concern  was  chiefly 
to  the  Elders  being  very  strong  and  fervent,  saying  it  was 
one  thing  to  begin  well,  and  another  thing  to  end  well, 
Speaking  home  to  the  states  of  some,  putting  them  in 
mind  of  former  reaches  &  visitations  which  he  fear'd  they 
were  now  gone  from  and  grown  into  a  disesteem  of  the 
Ministers  that  were  concern'd  on  their  account  in  plain 
dealing,  Judging  them  as  if  they  spoke  in  their  own 
Spirits,  farther  intimating  that  there  was  a  great  necessity 
for  some  to  return  to  their  first  love  and  that  their  Period 
was  nearer  than  they  were  aware  of. 

First  day  morning  he  was  livingly  and  divinely  open'd 
in  the  word  of  Consolation  to  a  little  remnant  left  amongst 
us,  whom  he  represented  under  the  case  of  Daniel, 
who  he  said  was  daily  concernd  to  pray  lor  those  of  the 
Captivity  that  they  might  be  admitted  to  return  again  to 
Jerusalem,  Such  as  these  He  said  he  would  have  tobe  to  be 
duly  priz'd  and  valued,  It  was  indeed  a  refreshing  good 
season  and  Truth  rais'd  in  a  good  degree  of  dominion  and 
triumph  over  the  opposite  nature  and  Spirit.  In  the  after- 
noon  he  was  sharp  upon  some  that  profess  w*h  us,  demon- 
strating them  to  be  Propagators  of  the  Kingdom  of  Satan, 
by  cxampling  and  drawing  one  another  from  the  Truth 


244     FRIENDS  TRAVELLING  IN  IRELAND 


into  wrong  things  and  putting  the  bottle  to  their  Neighbours 
mouth  &c.  On  the  third  day  following  in  the  afternoon 
he  had  a  Meeting  with  the  Young  People,  which  was  pretty 
well  attended  by  them  wherein  he  laboured  plainly  and 
fully  with  them,  yet  in  great  love  and  tenderness,  Saying 
he  sympathiz'd  with  poor  tempted  souls  that  the  Enemy 
was  likely  to  be  too  hard  for,  It  seem'd  to  have  good  effect 
on  some, .and  he  was  generally  lik'd.  Next  day  lie  went 
with  friends  from  our  Pro:  Meeting  towards  Limerick, 
He  also  had  a  Meeting  at  Bandon  and  Kinsale  to  good 
satisfaction. 

IIth  i  19th.  Tho3  Chapman  from  Bentham  in  York- 
shire. He  was  Companion  to  the  aforesaid  T.  Gawthrop, 
but  being  unwell  stay'd  behind  him  at  Mountrath.  An 
honest  plain  Friend. 

12th  i  13th.  Matthew  Mellor,  Manchester,  William 
Taylor,  Manchester,  James  Keyes,  Waterford,  They  were 
at  the  Quarterly  Meeting  for  Ministers  &  Elders  which 
'tho  very  small  said  Matthew  had  a  word  of  Encourage- 
ment. First  day  William  open'd  the  morning  Meeting,  ex- 
horting to  staidness  of  mind  and  an  inward  gathering  unto 
God  in  Spirit.  In  the  afternoon  Jas  Keyes  appear'd  first, 
but  the  service  of  the  Meeting  lay  on  Matthew  Mellor  who 
was  open'd  with  great  clearness,  demonstrating  that  where 
that  spirit  which  was  not  of  God  but  of  the  World  was 
entertained  by  consent  and  of  choice,  that  coolness  of  love 
to  God,  a  neglect  and  dislike  of  religious  Duties,  with  other 
things  would  most  certainly  issue  from  it  as  the  natural 
Product  of  that  Spirit,  Second  day  morning  said  Matthew- 
had  the  service  of  the  Meeting  before  him  on  the  Subject 
of  Love  to  God,  shewing  that  there  is  no  building  Religion 
right  without  it,  and  that  it  makes  every  service  pleasant, 
how  hard  soever  it  might  otherwise  appear  to  be,  Third  day 
morning  Ja?  Keyes  appear'd  first  and  after  him  Wilim Taylor 
who  was  favour'd  wih  a  good  time  and  there  was  a  reach  of 
Truth  over  the  Meeting,  Fourth  day  went  to  Bandon  8c 
return'd  next  day,  Sixth  day  morning  W»  Taylor  open'd 
the  Meeting  on  this  head  viz1  always  to  keep  in  our 
remembrance  thai,  we  must  come  to  Judgment  &c  after 
which  Matthew  had  a  few  words  of  Exhortation  and 
then  concluded  the  Meeting  in  Prayer.  They  went  next 
day  to  Youghall. 


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I2tb  m.  Abigail  Watson  accompanied  by  her  husband 
Samuel  Watson. 

1742. 

5lh  £    Elizabeth  Symkin,  Eliz^  Knighton,  Noting* 
hamshire.    Jane  Dixon,  Hannah  Bell,  Cumberland. 
6*  £    John  Fothergill,  Yorkshire. 
8«>  £    Mar}:  Reckaby,  Yorkshire. 

1743. 

6th  £  .  David  Hodgson,  Richard  Waite,  Cumberland. 
Alee  Alderson,  Yorkshire. 

8th  £    Jane  Rowlandson,  Lancashire. 

5jth       Mary  Kirby,  Norfolk.    Sarah  Artis,  Suffolk. 

12th  £  Elizabeth  Smith  came  here  and  was  long  in 
the  Nation. 

1744. 

Hannah  Harris,  Jane  Beeby,  Cumberland. 

3d  I.    Elizabeth  Shipley,  Esther  White,  Pensylvania. 

4th  £  Samuel  Fothergill  from  Warrington  in  Eng- 
land, being  accompanied  b\<-  Rob*  Richardson  from  Ulster 
Province. 

5th  £    Abigail  Watson  accompany'd  by  her  Husband. 
8th  £    Isaac  Sharpless  from  near  Bristol. 
I2lh  £    Susanna  Morris,  Eiizth  Morgan,  from  Pen- 
sylvania. 

1745. 

Sarah  Dickson,    Elizth   Beeby,   from  Cumberland, 
Robert  Watts,  a  Sojourner  at  Warwick. 
James  Gough  came  with  his  Sister  Mary. 
5th  £  Rachel  Kendrick   Yorkshire,    Sarah  Crawly 
Harfordshire. 

11th  £    Hannah  Pine,  Deborah  Skinner,  Lancashire. 
1746. 

2*  £    Christopher  Wilson  aforesaid  Cumberland, 
yfc  £    Hannah  Brown  Harfordshire.  Sarah  Batchelor 
Sussex. 

li&  8.    Eleazer  Sheldon  from  Dublin. 


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1747. 

Abigail  Watson,  from  County  Carlow,  Ann  Barclay 
from  Dublin  came  to  visit  us  and  were  at  our  Quarterly 
Meeting,  and  at  the  Meeting  of  Ministers  Ann  was  notably 
concern/ d  to  exhort  the  Ministers  &  Elders  to  faithfulness, 
and  to  stand  firm  in  their  places,  mentioning  that  Passage 
in  Scripture,  where  the  Priests  stood  in  the  bottom  of 
Jordan  'till  the  People  passed  over,  Their  Service  was 
acceptable  and  'tis  hoped  had  good  effect  especially  among 
the  Youth. 

4;  •  L  Mary  Peisly  Leinster  Province,  Elizth  Tomey 
Limerick. 

5th  S.  Alee  Featherston  England,  Elizlb  Shepard 
Leinster  Province. 

19th.    Richard  Burton,  Jonathan  Wilson,  England. 

6th  m  33.  Ebenezer  Large  from  America,  an  Able  and 
Skilful!  Minister  of  the  Gospel ;  he  went  hence  to  Youghall. 

Gherret  Hassen  who  visited  this  Meeting  with  Joseph 
Gill  in  the  year  1737  as  before  mentioned  was  born  in 
Utrecht  in  Holland,  and  came  to  live  in  England  and 
being  at  a  Meeting  with  our  dear  Friend  Mary  Wyatt 
he  was  so  reach'd  and  broken  by  the  power  that  attended 
her  in  time  of  Prayer  (tho*  he  did  not  understand,  ye  words 
she  utter' d)  that  he  declin'd  the  publick  Worship  ;  and 
now  having  settled  in  Dublin  he  had  an  extraordinary 
Concern  to  visit  every  family  of  Friends  in  the  Nation, 
not  only  such  as  were  in  Unity  but  even  the  Outcasts, 
several  times  saying  that  the  Cry  was  loud  in  him  to  go  to 
the  lost  sheep  of  the  house  of  Israel. 

7th  %  20th.  Richard  Hipsley  from  near  Bristol,  went 
to  Bandon  &  hence  to  Youghall. 

1748. 

3d  m  27th.  John  Curtis  from  Bristol,  a  young  Man 
lately  convine'd,  he  had  been  for  some  time  a  follower  of 
the  Methodists,  but  growing  uneasy  with  their  way  left 
them,  and  is  now  become  an  able  Minister  of  the  Gospel. 
He  had  a  Meeting  at  Kinsale  to  good  satisfaction  Sc  went 
hence  to  Youghall. 

&  Z  5th.  Rachel  Saul,  Martha  Saul,  Cumberland, 
&  both  able  Ministers, 


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12th.    Jane  Fayle  from  Edenderry. 

Elizth  Burr  from  Northamptonshire. 

6th  £  14^.  Jane  Hoskins  Eiizth  Hudson  from 
Pennsylvania,  They  had  a  Meeting  at  Bandon,  went,  thence 
to  Kinsale  where  they  were  met  by  several  friends  of 
Corke,  and  had  a  Meeting  there,  but  not  finding  themselves 
clear  of  Bandon  went  back  again  that  night  and.  had  a 
Meeting  in  their  way  at  Inishannon,  next  da}T  had  a  large 
and  satisfactory  Meeting  at  Bandon  which  was  held  in  the 
Market  House  Friends  Meeting  house  being  too  small  to 
contain  the  "oeoTjle. 

7th  £  7th.  John  Curtis  came  here  again  in  his  return 
from  visiting  the  Nation  and  had  some  further  service 
amongst  us  &  took  shipping  the  12th  Ins1. 

24th.  Joseph  Tomey  from  Dublin  a  young  Man 
well-  Qualified  for  the  Work  of  the  Ministry,  He  went 
hence  the  20th  Ins*. 

8*&  £  Is*.  Mary  Kirby  Norfolk,  Sarah  Artis 
Suffolk. 

23d.  Jonathan  Barnes  came  here  about  business 
and  had  some  service  amongst  us. 

9th  £  8th.  Abigail  Watson,  Ann  Barclay,  landed  here 
from  visiting  the  Nation  of  England  and  stay'd  till  the  first 
day  following.  In  the  morning  Meeting  Abigail  was  very 
sharp  in  warning  and  reproof  to  the  stubborn  and  rebellious, 
also  to  such  as  are  climbing  up  any  other  way  than  by 
Christ  the  Door  and  are  exalted  above  the  Witness,  running 
after  the  Lo'heres  and  Lo'theres,  admonishing  such  to 
come  down  in  their  Minds  and  wait  on  the  Lord  with  a  single 
eye  &c.  afterwards  she  was  very  sweetly  opened  in  a 
Prophetick  manner  to  declare,  that  the  time  hastens 
wherein  Judgment  shall  begin  at  the  house  of  God,  and 
many  should  be  shaken  from  the  dust  of  the  Earth  and 
made  Publishers  of  the  Gospel  of  life  and  salvation, 
adding  that  the  word  was  gone  forth  "  Great  shall  be  the 
Lord's  Army."  In  the  afternoon  she  was  enncem'd  much 
to  the  same  purpose  but  more  close'and  particular  in 
warning,  Saying  that  if  some  who  were  there  did  not 
speech] y  turn  to  the  Lord,  she  was  afraid  they  would  be 
cut  oft'  in  the  midst  of  their  Jollity.  She  deliver'd  her 
Testimony  sitting  down  by  reason  of  bodily  weakness. 

it>  t  8th.    Elizabeth  Fennell  (formerly  Pease  now 


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the  wife  of  Joshua  Fennel!  of  Kilcommon)  was  at  our 
Quarterly  Meeting,  and  was  concernd  to  stirr  up  the  careless 
and  lukewarm.  Instancing  the  case  of  the  Church  of 
Laodicea  formerly  which  the  Lord  said  he  would  spew  out 
of  his  Mouth,  Saying  that  nothing  was  more  loathsome 
to  the  Lord,  than  for  people  who  pretend  to  be  spiritual 
worshippers  to  be  careless  and  indifferent,  but  she  spoke 
comfortably  to  a  little  remnant  with  whom  she  said  it  was 
not  so.  The  same  day  in  the  afternoon  she  was  concerned 
in  a  lively  testimony  exhorting  all  to  see  what  foundation 
thev  were  building  upon,  for  that  the  day  was  approaching 
which  would  try  every  man's  foundation,  and  that  the  wise 
builders  as  well  as  the  foolish  were  not  to  be  exempted  from 
the  Storms  and  trails. 

*749- 

I«*  i  28th.  Samuel  Nottingham,  Northamptonshire, 
Black  Smith,  Daniel  Stanton,  Philadelphia  Shop  Joiner, 
Samuel  was  returning  from  visiting  America  and  stay'd  here 
some  time  being  much  out  of  order  with  a  bad  passage, 
was  at  the  Marriage  of  Joseph  Harris  &  Mary  Beale 
Daughter  of  Thos  Beale  where  he  had  good  service,  there 
being  a  great  number  of  Friends  and  others  who  seemed 
generally  well  satisfied,  He  went  hence  with  Abrm  Fuller 
&  Richd  Allen  who  went  to  the  Yearly  Meeting  at  London. 
D  :  Stanton  intended  to  visit  England  and  Ireland,  but  the 
ship  being  drove  into  Kinsale  by  stress  of  weather,  & 
seeing  his  way  open  to  proceed  on  his  visit  first  to  this 
Nation  accordingly  after  about  a  weeks  stay  here  went 
hence  towards  Youghall  &  so  to  the  half  years  Meeting. 
They  were  both  able  Ministers  &  their  Visit,  acceptable. 

;2d  i  16*;  Isabella  Middletoii,  Mary  Sandwith,  Dublin 
both  Daughters  of  Joseph  Gill. 

3d  f,  21.  John  Griffith,  Pensylvania.  Will"  Back- 
house Lancashire  were  at  our  Pro  :  Meeting  and  spoke 
Prophetically  of  the  progress  of  Truth,  both  able  Ministers 
&  went  hence  to  Kilcommon. 

4ih  £  nth.  Daniel  Glaister  came  here  with  his  Uncle 
John  Pirn,  &  had  some  service  at  our  first  day  Meeting, 
he  came  chiefly  to  see  some  relations. 

6Ui  8  6**».  EJizth  Mariott,  Notinehamshire,  Edith 
Flower,   Yorkshire,   were  at  our  first  and    third  day 


FRIENDS  TRAVELLING  IN  IRELAND  249 

Meetings,  had  a  Meeting  at  Kinsale,  and  another  at  Bandon 
both  satisfactory  but  the  latter  most  solid  being  made  up 
cf  a  tender  seeking  people  in  general,  return 'd  to  Corke 
again  and  had  a  Meeting  first  day  afternoon  wth  several 
sober  people  of  the  Town  which  was  to  good  satisfaction, 
and  several  of  the  People  expressed  their  satisfaction  in  this 
Meeting,  the  service  lay  mostly  upon  Elizth  who  was  an  able 
and  well  qualified  Minister,  the}'  went  hence  16th  Ins1  to 
Yodgfcalll 

7th  £  17th.  James  Keyes,  Waterford,  E)izth  Tomey, 
Limerick,  Were  at  our  Pro  :  Meeting  &  both  had  good 
service  amongst  us. 

7th  £  26th.  Samuel  Nottingham  aforesaid  was  going 
in  a  vessel  bound  for  Tortola  which  putting  in  here  to  take 
in  provisions  he  stay'd  several  weeks  and  had  good  service 
amongst  friends.  He  sail'd  hence  for  Tortola  in  order 
to  marry  &  settle  there. 

10th  s  ioth.  Eli 2th  Fennell  came  to  our  Quarterly 
Meeting  in  which  she  was  very  sweetly  open'd  in  a 
prophetick  manner  to  declare  that  the  gathering  day  oi 
the  Lord  was  not  afar  off  in  which  he  would  gather 
many  thousands  who  should  flock  to  Zion  as  doves  to  the 
Windows  and  the  Lord  wou'd  beautifie  Zion  but  first  lie 
would  cleanse  her  and  many  should  be  made  to  go  with 
the  hazard  of  their  lives  to  Publish  the  glad  tidings  of 
Truth  in  Countries  abroad. 

11th  I  2Qtb.  William  Imphy  of  or  near  Woodbridge 
Suffolk,  William  Thomas  of  ye  Island  of  Tortola,  America, 
came  here  from  ye  Count}'  of  Tipperary  accompany' d  by 
William  Fennell  &  next  day  being  third  day  William 
Imphy  appear'd  in  our  Meeting  with  much  sweetness  & 
life,  &  began  his  Testimony  with  the  words  of  the  Wise  Man, 
Viz*.  The  fear  of  the  Lord  is  the  beginning  of  Wisdom 
and  to  depart  from  Iniquity  is  a  good  understanding  ;  from 
which  he  went  on  to  the  request  of  Solomon  when  made 
King  over  Israel,  &  said  there  was  great  need  for  all 
ranks  in  the  Church  the  Folders,  Middle  aged  &  the  Youth, 
to  ask  Wisdom  of  the  Lord,  that  they  might  know  how  to 
demean  themselves  so  as  to  bring  honour  to  the  name  of 
the  Lord  our  God,  and  not  to  be  as  stumbling  blocks  in  the 
way  of  sober  Enquirers  with  more  not  noted.  Wilim 
Thomas  concluded  the  Meeting  in   Prayer,    The  31st 


250     FRIENDS  TRAVELLING  IN  IRELAND 


Willm  Imphy  accompany'd  by  several  friends  went  to 
Bandon,  &  thence  to  Kinsale,  at  both  of  which  he  had  a 
Meeting  to  good  satisfaction.  William  Imphy  spoke 
prophetically  of  a  trying  time  and  also  of  the  Prosperity  of 
Truth  ;  They  went  hence  to  Youghall. 

1750. 

2d  m  15th.  James  Gough  from  Mountmelick  accom- 
pany'd by  John  Pirn  of  Lecky  (not  publick)  on  a  Visit 
to  the  Province,  &  Elizabeth  Tomey  Limerick  were 
at  our  Province  Meeting,  &  both  their  service  was  accept- 
able to  Friends. 

6th  £  11th.  John  Bevington  Warwickshire,  came  here 
from  Youghall  stay'd  our  first  and  third  day  Meetings 
had  a  Meeting  at  Kinsale  &  Bandon,  &  on  ye  16th  left  this 
.  accompany'd  by  several  friends  of  Corke  &  went  to 
Lismore,  where  they  had  a  satisfactory  Meeting  and 
the  people  sober  &  attentive,  they  went  thence  to  the 
Quarterly  Meeting  at  Clonmell,  Pie  was  a  Man  very  plain 
in  his  habit,  &  plain  &  sound  in  his  Ministr}r  &  his  service 
acceptable. 

21st.  Joseph  Tomey  came  here  from  the  Quarterly 
Meeting  at  Clonmell,  next  day  went  to  Bandon  accornpanyd 
by  some  of  Corke  friends  had  a  Meeting  there  &  return'd 
the  day  following,  First  day  Morning  he  was  earnestly 
concern' d  to  stirr  up  friends  &  others  saying,  it  was  his 
firm  belief  that  if  this  sinful  Nation  will  not  humble  them- 
selves during  the  day  of  Mercy  that  they  shall  be  humbled 
in  Judgment  (or  to  this  purpose  but  more  largely)  as  also 
at  the  above  Meeting  at  Clonmell  that  the  Lord  would 
thresh  this  Nation  &  fan  it  and  cause  the  chaff  to  be  blown 
away  as  by  the  breath  of  his  Nostrils. 

Third  day  following  he  had  a  Meeting  with  the  Young 
People,  to  which  came  several  of  the  Towns  people  & 
some  of  them  of  Note  who  seem'd  well  satisfied,  He  with 
-  Abrni  Fuller  and  several  friends  of  Corke  went  the  29th  to 
Youghall. 

Abrm  Fuller  had  a  concern  about  this  time  to  visit 
the  Western  parts  &  accordingly  accompany'd  by  some 
friends  of  Corke  had  Meetings  at  Ross,  Bantry,  Skibbereen, 
Baltimore,  Dunmanaway  &:  Bandon,  in  several  oi  which 
places  there  appear' d  a  great  openess  to  hear  Truth 


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deciar  $  but  especially  at  Bandon  Dunmanaway  & 
Baltimore. 

7th  :n.  William  Thomas  landed  here  again  in  his 
way  home  and  went  to  Water  ford,  where  he  stay'd  a  few 
days  &  return'd  to  Corke,  &  having  finishd  his  service 
here  took  ship  8th  I  20th  for  Antigua. 

8th  i  10th.  Abrm  Fuller  having  some  farther  concern 
went  to  Mallow,  Doncraile,  &  Charleviil  accompany'd 
by  several  friends  of  Corke,  at  which  places  they  had 
Meetings  to  good  satisfaction.  And  there  appear'd  a  great 
openness  amon,?  the  People.  Some  time  after  having  some 
i  art  her  service  before  him  and  our  Antient  Friend  Martha 
Dobbs  of  Youghall  being  deceas'd,  he  with  several  friends 
of  Corke  went  to  the  burial  and  thence  to  Cappoquin, 
Lismore,  and  Tallow  at  which  places  the}7  had  Meetings  to 
satisfaction. 

1751. 

2d  S  14th.  Elizabeth  Fennell  accompany'd  by  her 
Husband  Joshua  Fennell  were  at  our  Quarterly  Pro : 
Meeting  and  stay'd  till  first  day  following.  Her  service 
was  to  edification  &  encouragement,  declaring  that  the 
Lord  would  yet  beautifie  Zion  &  strengthen  her  Stakes 
&  lengthen  her  Cords,,  with  more  to  the  same  Purpose. 

Our  worthy  friend  Eliztb  Tome}*  of  this  City  departed 
this  life  4th  £  7th  about  the  Ist  hour  in  the  morning. 

5th  I  11th.  Katharine  Payton,  Worcestershire,  Mary 
Peisly,  Leinster  Province,  came  here  from  Youglrall  and 
were  at  our  6th  day  Meeting  but  both  silent.  First  day 
following  Katharine  bore  a  sharp  and  powerfuil  testimony, 
faithfully  warning  both  young  &  old,  intimating  that  if 
there  was  not  an  amendment,  a.  day  of  scattering  would 
come  ;  Second  day  being  our  Men's  Meeting  they  desir'd 
an  Opportunity  with  us,  at  said  Meeting  Mary  was 
concern 'd  in  suitable  advice  and  Counsel,  &  afterward 
Katharine  had  a  very  satisfactory  time  in  Prayer,  They 
had  Meetings  at  Kinsale  and  Bandon,  return'd  on  the 
18th  and  had  a  full  afternoon  Meeting  with  friend?  at 
Corke  to  which  came  a  great  many  of  tile  town's  people 
who  were  mostly  sober  &  attentive  ;  Kath  Mad  good 
service  amongst  them  opening  several  passages  of  Scripture 
much  to  their  satisfaction ;  They  went  hence  next  day 
with  Corke  friends  to  the  Pro  :  Meeting  at  Limerick. 

Vol.  x.— 125. 


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6tb  £  22<*..  Ann  Gunner,  Near  Ipswich,  Mar}7  Abbott 
Northamptonshire,  came  here  from  Limerick  &  were  at 
our  sixth  day  Meeting,  first  clay  Ann  was  concern'd  in  a 
close  &  powerfuil  testimony  against  a  careless  indolent 
spirit ;  third  day  they  went  to  Bandon  and  return'd  next 
day  and  had  an  Afternoon  Meeting  with  friends  of  Corke, 
Ann  stood  up  first  and  had  a  good  time  in  exhortation  and 
admonition  and  spoke  something  prophetically  to  this 
effect,  that  if  there  was  not  more  diligence  and  a  prizing  the 
mercies  of  God  we  may  live  to  see  a  time  wherein  our 
foundations  may  be  more  fully  tried  ;  After  which  Mary 
was  concern'd  10  speak  plain!}7  to  the  States  of  such  as 
took  delight  to  hear  Truth's  Testimony  declar'd  and  it  was 
a  pleasant  Song  to  them,  but  were  not  carefull  to  }rield 
obedience  to  the  manifestations  of  Truth  in  their  own 
hearts,  exhorting  such  to  seek  to  be  acquainted  with  the 
living  Word  &  not  to  be  feeding  upon  Words,  Otherwise 
she  said  she  believed  the  Lord  would  take  away  his 
Ministers  (who  would  have  work  to  do  elsewhere)  &  cause 
us  to  have  a  famine  of  the  Word,  &  then  that  such  as  had 
been  carefull  to  know  the  Truth  for  themselves  would 
have  something  to  retire  unto,  they  went  hence  yc  29th  wth 
friends  of  Corke  to  the  Pro :  Meeting  at  Wat  erf  or  d, 

7th  £  7th.  Eleazer  Sheldon  from  Dublin  came  here 
from  ye  Pro:  Meeting  at  Waterford,  stay'd  first  &  second 
day  &  ye  xoth  went  towards  Kilcommon. 

8th  £  13th.  Elizth  Fennel!  came  to  our  Quarterly 
Meeting  and  stay'd  till  ye  first  day  following  &  on  the  21st 
being  second  day  had  a  Meeting  with  the  young  Women 
by  appointment. 


Ist  m  5^.4  Joshua  Dixon  County  of  Durham  an 
able  &  powerfuil  Minister  of  the  Gospel  sound  in  doctrine 
&  of  a  baptizing  ministry,  sharp  in  warning  to  the 
stubborn  and  rebellious  but  a  son  of  consolation  to  the 
Mourners,  He  was  at  our  Quarterly  Meeting  ye  5*  &  6th 
went  to  Bandon  the  y&  had  a  Meeting  there,*'  return 'd 
the  8*  &  had  a  Meeting  with  friends  of  Corke  by  appoint- 

<  There  is  a  note  in  the  MS.  at  this  point  :  "  Calendar  altered."  The 
reader  may  have  noticed  that  edifies  in  1  mo.  (March)  to  the  24th  have 
hitherto  preceded  the  change  of  year. 


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ment,  which  was  a  full  meeting  &  to  good  satisfaction, 
He  went  hence  to  Yougball. 

2d  m  9th.  Will™  Brown,  America,  Sam1  Neal,  Dublin, 
came  this  day  from  Limerick,  having  been  sent  out  of  their 
way  by  the  unskilfulness  of  some  that  directed  them,  the 
10th  being  first  of  the  week  they  had  good  service  amongst 
us,  next,  day  had  an  opportunity  at  our  Men  &  Wornens 
Meeting  together.  And  that  afternoon  went  to  Bandon 
accompany'd  b}7  several  friends  of  Corke  &  had  an  evening 
Meeting  there  which  was  very  full  the  house  not  being 
large  enough  to  contain  ym  in  which  WiJlm  laid  open  the 
Hireling  Priests  and  their  corrupt  practices  as  Pride  Covet- 
ousness  &  Oppression  &c.  with  great  Authority  declaring 
that  they  neither  know  the  Scriptures  nor  the  Power  of 
God,  Instancing  that  of  their  seeking  after  great  Benefices 
&  then  hiring  a  Journeyman  for  perhaps  less  than  a  fourth 
part  of  their  Income  to  Preach  in  their  stead  thus  making 
Merchandize  of  the  People  to  which  some  of  them  assented 
saying  it  was  true,  The  next  day  went  to  Dunmanaway 
had  a  Meeting  there  which  was  full  &  the  people  sober 
&  attentive  where  Willm  had  the  like  concern  as  before  to 
lay  open  the  Priests  &  their  Practices,  that  night  came 
back  to  Bandon,  &next  morning  went  to  Kinsale  and  there 
had  a  large  &  satisfactory  Meeting,  next  day  to  Corke  and 
had  a  Meeting  by  appointment  which  was  full  and  to  good 
satisfaction  &  next  day  towards  Limerick  to  the  Pro  : 
Meeting.  Samuel  was  a  young  man  lately  come  forth  in 
the  Ministry  who  had  formerly  lived  in  a  loose  way  of  life 
but  the  Lord  was  pleased  to  visit  him  both  immediately 
and  Instrument  ally,  &  particularly  by  the  Ministry  of 
Kath  Payton  &  Samuel  Fothergilh 

3d  «,  25th.  Gherret  Hassen  came  here  from  Youghall 
&  stay'd  to  our  Quarterly  Meeting  the  28lh  went  to  Bandon, 
returned  &  went  hence  towards  Limerick. 

6th  i  11th.  Samuel  Spevold  from  Hitchin  in  Hart- 
fordshire  was  at  our  sixth  &  first  day  Meetings  at  both 
which  he  was  concern'd  to  speak  plainly  &  closely  to  the 
states  of  many,  and  expressed  something  in  a  Prophefick 
if?ay,  observing  how  the  Lord  had  shaken  the  Rod  several 
times  in  this  &  other  nations  &  yet  it  seern'd  to  have  but 
little  effect,  &  he  said  he  feared  nothing  but  heavy 
Judgments  would  do  ;    &  the  same  evening  at  Abriri 


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Fuller's  at  a  Meeting  of  several  friends  he  declared  with 
great  weight  &  under  an  extraordinary  Concern,  that  the 
Lord  would  try  the  foundations  of  men  and  of  Friends  as 
a  People,  &  seemed  to  think  it  would  fall  heavier  on  them 
than  on  others,  often  repeating  it  as  a  thing  sealed  to  his 
understanding,  &  that  ye  same  had  often  been  opened  to 
him  since  he  came  into  this  Nation.  In  the  words  of  the 
Prophet  Amos  3d  Chap.  &  2d  Verse,  &  that  he  seemed  to 
think  the  time  near,  &  the  Child  born  yea  grown  up  that  will 
live  to  see  it,  and  farther  said  that  some  who  were  present 
might  live  to  see  it,  and  that  the  sound  of  Mortality  would 
be  such  as  should  make  the  hearts  of  thousands  &  tens  of 
thousands  to  tremble,  and  their  ears  to  tingle,  he  went  next 
day  to  Bandon,  Kinsale,  Dunmanawa\~,  return'd  to  Bandon 
&  so  back  to  Corke,  on  the  18th  he  had  an  Opportunity 
with  the  Men  &  Women's  Meetings  together  by  appointment 
where  he  had  the  like  concern  as  before,  declaring  with 
great  weight  that  a  stripping  day  was  at  hand,  and  that 
this  is  the  generation  that  shall  see  it.  He  went  hence  the 
2d  of  ye  7*  I  towards  Youghall. 

19th.  Samuel  Nottingham  of  Tortola  landed  here 
from  said  Island  had  some  service  here  &  went  hence  the 
29th  towards  Youghall. 

yth  I  15th.  Abrm  Fuller  went  towards  Mallow  in  his 
way  to  visit  Ulster  Province,  8c  thence  to  Scotland 
accompany'd  by  Thomas  Wily  a  young  man  of  this  City 
not  Publick. 

7th  g  9th.  Susanna  Hatton  formerly  Hudson  who 
visited  this  province  wth  Ruth  Courtney  1738  accompany'd 
by  Elizth  Hutchinson  daughter  of  Jonathan  Hutchinson 
of  this  City  deceas'd,  were  at  our  sixth  &  first  da}'  Meetings, 
al^o  at  the  Men  &  Women's  Meetings  together  by  appoint* 
merit  on  the  second  day  following,  stay'd  third  day  & 
fourth  day  went  to  Bandon,  Susanna  at  her  return  not 
being  clear  stayed  here  some  time  longer,  having  a  Concern 
to  visit  several  families,  in  some  of  which  she  had  hard 
work  speaking  home  to  the  states  of  several  under  the 
profession  of  Truth  who  did  not  walk  answerable  thereto 
tho'  she  said  she  had  no  outward  information,  &  at  a 
first  day  Meetings  on  the  26th  she  had  two  memorable 
testimonies  to  deliver,  the  first  in  the  forenoon  concerning 
the  libertines  and  those  who  set  themselves  in  opposition 


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to  the  testimony  of  Truth,  declaring  with  great  authority 
in  the  demonstration  of  the  Divine  Power  which  was 
eminently  with  her,  that  the  Lord  would  bring  them  down 
think  what  they  would,  &  that  he  would  humble  them 
Let  them  look  never  so  high,  &  tho'  Gog  &  Magog  Join 
in  battle  array  yet  the  Lamb  &  his  Followers  shall  have 
the  Victory.  The  second  was  in  the  afternoon  which 
seem'd  to  be  mostly  for  those  concerned  in  the  discipline 
of  the  Church  cautioning  them  to  stand  their  ground 
and  not  to  Join  with  a  wrong  thing,  not  to  let  their  spirits 
be  mixed  with  those  who  are  going  on  in  things  contrary 
to  Truth,  and  not  to  heed  those  who  cou'd  speak  words  as 
smooth  as  Oil,  and  then  addressing  herself  to  the  Meeting 
in  genera]  warned  them,  that  none  of  them  might  hide 
their  wickedness  by  Bribery.  Next  day  she  had  a 
Concern  to  the  Men  &  Women's  Meetings,  and  at  the  latter 
spoke  much  to  the  above  purpose  Saying  that  the  Enemy 
was  endeavouring  to  lay  waste  the  Heritage  of  God,  & 
she  was  afraid  he  wou'd  prevail  if  there  was  net  a  Care, 
Exhorting  friends  to  stand  their  ground  &  stretch  the  line 
of  Discipline  over  the  heads  of  Transgressors,  saying  there 
was  that  which  would  prove  deadly  at  the  latter  end  (if 
not  prevented)  She  also  said  this  exercise  was  heavy 
upon  her  0:  that  it  was  not  from  the  hearing  of  the  Ear  but 
that  she  felt  a  spirit  amongst  them  which  was  even  as 
it  were  seared  with  an  hot  Iron,  which  was  not  willing  that 
right  and  true  Judgment  should  go  forth. 

Note  there  was  a  Person  present  who  had  hereto- 
fore opposed  the  Judgment  of  Friends  &  hinder'd  Justice 
from  being  impartially  administer'd,  &  has  since  given 
friends  much  trouble  &  uneasiness. 

They  went  hence  8th  £  Ist  to  the  Pro  :  Meeting  at 
Youghall,  being  the  first  Pro  :  Meeting  held  there  since 
the  years 

9th  g  15*.  John  Churchman  East  Nottingham 
Pensylvania,  John  Pemberton  son  of  Israel  Pembcrton 
Philadelphia,  a  young  man  lately  come  forth  in  the 
Ministry,  They  came  here  from  Youghall  and  were  at  our 
first  day  Meetings,  John  Churchman  was  concern'd  in 
a  lively  testimony  against  a  sort  of  Deistical  Spirit.,  which 
would  lay  waste  the  authority  of  the  Scriptures  and 

s  There  ife  a  space  in  the  MS.  for  the  insertion  of  a  date. 


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persuade  People  into  a  belief  that  they  may  indulge  them- 
selves in  their  Lusts  &  pleasures,  as  if  the  Almighty  was 
so  perfectly  happy  in  himself  as  not  to  be  moved  with 
anger  against  Mankind  for  only  gratifying  those  passions 
which  himself  has  planted  in  their  nature  with  more 
to  this  effect  not  noted,  &  farther  said  that  he  looked  upon 
this  to  be  as  dangerous  as  Atheism  itself  He  also  spoke 
prophetically  saying,  he  believ'd  the  time  was  near  wherein 
the  Lord  would  stretch  forth  his  Rod  over  the  Earth, 
Purge  away  the  load  of  Sin  &  wickedness  which  has 
con  up  ted  the  earth  &  under  which  the  very  Creation 
groans  (or  to  this  purpose)  &  in  the  afternoon,  after 
recounting  something  of  the  faithfulness  of  our  worthy 
Elders  &  Predecessors  he  said  there  is  a  Mungrel  Race 
grown  up  now,  which  tho'  they  would  be  thought  to  walk 
in  the  light  yet  there  is  a  mixture  of  darkness  &  they  are 
acting  in  their  own  wisdom,  but  he  said  the  Lord  would 
raise  up  some  as  it  were  out  of  the  dust  who  shall  take 
their  Crowns  off  their  heads,  They  went  hence  ye  22d 
towards  the  Pro  :  Meeting  at  Limerick. 

Abraham  Fuller  return'd  from  visiting  Scotland 
10*  i  II&  1752. 

ioth  i  22d.  James  Tomey  of  Limerick  &  his  Daughter 
Eii?;th  Tomey  of  said  City,  Samuel  Sheldon  Waterfprd, 
were  at  our  Pro  :  Meeting. 

12th  £  13th.  Matthew  Mellor,  Joseph  Harwood,  both 
of  Manchester  were  at  our  Quay  Meeting  ye  17th  Instant, 
The}r  stayed  here  several  weeks  &  visited  several  families 
together  with  Elizth  Tomey  who  had  been  here  since  iofh  £ 
22d  They  went  hence  Ist  i  9th  towards  Limerick,  but 
Elizth  Tomey  stay'd  &  went  with  friends  of  Corke  to  the 
Pro  :  Meeting  at  Qonmell  which  was  held  ye  28th  &  29th  of 
yc-  Ist  ^  Joseph,  had  been  a  soldier  &  was  convinced, 
upon  which  he  laid  down  his  arms  &  therefore  was.  sen- 
tenced to  be  shot  it  being  in  the  time  of  the  Rebellion, 
but  being  faithfull  the  Lord  deliver'd  him,  He  was  a  man 
remarkably  Innocent  &  Sweet  in  his  Conversation. 

1753- 

7th  I  24.  Sarah  Splatt,  Mary  Sparks,  Exeter  the 
latter  since  married  to  Joshua  Ridge  way  of  Ballicarrol 
Queen's  County. 


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30th.    May  Drummond. 

gth  I  3:5th.  William  Rickett,  Samuel  Stott,  came  here 
this  day,  &  went  to  Bandon  the  day  following,  and  return'd 
back  to  Corke.  Samuel  was  wholly  silent  in  Corke  & 
Bandon  and  they  made  but  a  short  stay. 

19th.  John  Chrysty  01  Ulster  Pro  :  James  Tomey  of 
Limerick,  Samuel  Watson  of  Kilconner,  Joseph  Tomey 
of  Dublin,  James  Pirn  of  near  M*  Rath,  These  five  friends 
with  AbrnB  Fuller  being  appointed  by  the  half  \<ears  Meeting 
to  perform  a  National  Visit,  were  at  our  Meeting  this  day 
being  first  day  of  the  week,  together  with  the  two  last 
mention'd.  friends,  They  went  hence  towards  the  County 
of  Tipperary  &  so  to  the  Quarterly  Meeting  at  Waterford, 
but  Wm  &  Sam.1  being  pressed  to  hasten  forward  did  not 
stay  the  Quarterly  Meeting. 

11th  5.  24th.  Edmond  Peckover  from  Norfolk  came  to 
our  Quarterly  Meeting,  went  to  Kinsale  &  Bandon  &  was 
at  our  first  day  Meetings  12th  i  2d,  &  next  day  went 
towards  Limerick. 

1754- 

2d  I  9th.    Eliz^  Fenneil  with  her  husband  came  to  our, 
Quarterly  Meeting,  had  a  Meeting  with  the  Women 
stay'd  till  first  day  following  and  her  service  was  very 
acceptable  to  friends. 

17th.  Ann  Gunner,  Mary  Artis,  Suffolk  were  at 
our  first  day  Meetings.  Stay'd  till  3d  $  8*h  &  then  took 
shipping  for  Bristol. 

3d  m  7th.  Mary  Sparks  aforesaid  came  about  this 
time  having  left  her  old  companion,  Sarah  Splatt  behind 
her  at  Kilcommon,  who  followed  her  in  a  little  time 
and  were  both  at  our  Pro:  Meeting  &  took  shipping  for 
Minehead  4th  &  Ist. 

4th  »  26th.  Gherret  Hassen  from  Dublin  had  several 
Meetings  with  us  &  went  to  Bandon,  was  sick  in  the  Gout 
at  Abrra  Fuller's  for  some  time  &  5th  £  ggtt  went  towards 
Limerick. 

g%h  I  yih:  Rachel  Wilson  of  Kendal  in  Westmoreland 
accompany'd  by  Eliztfc  Rebanks  a  young  woman  not 
publick,  stay'd  first  da^  Meetings,  second  day  went  to 
Bandon,  third  day  to  Kinsale  at  each  of  winch  had  a 
Meeting  to  good  satisfaction,  return'd  same  day  &  had  a 


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Meeting  fourth  day  at  Corke  to  good  satisfaction,  &  next 
day  went  to  the  Pro:  Meeting  at  Waterford,  she  was  an 
able  &  skilful!  Minister  &  deeply  read  in  ye  M}7steries 
of  ye  Kingdom. 

Abraham  Fuller  a  resident  of  this  City  had  such  an 
extraordinary  concern  ra 

7ai  being  sixth  day  of  the  week 
that  it  was  thought  worth  committing  to  writing  &  was 
to  the  following  Purpose  viz — That  the  time  was  hastening 
and  that  some  who  were  present  would  live  to  see  it  that 
the  foundations  of  Men  would  be  tryed  in  a  very  near 
manner,  that  it  would  be  a  sifting  &  a  winnowing  time, 
that  we  shall  be  fewer  in  number  &  that  none  would  be 
able  to  stand  but  such  as  were  walking  humbly  before  God, 
but  the  Proud  and  the  exalted  would  not  be  able  to 
stand  the  lier3<T  tryal,  &  that  such  as  are  not  dwelling  in 
humility  before  God  will  be  scattered  as  sheep  without  a 
Shepherd,  That  when  that  winnowing  time  should  come 
such  as  were  enabled  to  stand  should  be  of  one  heart  and 
one  mind  and  should  keep  near  to  the  Lord  and  one  unto 
another,  That  after  this  day  of  sore  calamity  shall  be  over 
the  Lord  will  add  to  the  number  of  his  Church  &  that 
many  shall  flock  unto  Zion  as  Doves  unto  the  Windows, 
that  he  will  say  to  the  North  give  up  &  to  the  South 
keep  not  back  bring  rny  sons  from  far  &  my  Daughters 
from  ye  ends  of  ye  Earth. 

7'h  £  20th.  Richard  Reynolds  from  Bristol  came  here 
this  day  stay'd  first  d?,y  Meetings,  went  to  Bandon  next 
day  returned  same  day  &  took  shipping  for  Bristol  ye 
26**  Ins*. 

9&  &  i<5&.  Sarah  Worrall,  Elizth  Ashbridge,  America 
came  here  from  Limerick,  Sarah  was  an  Ancient  Friend 
&  continued  sickly  at  William  Abbotts  in  this  City  untill 
2A  2  28ib  1755,  &  then  died  there  &  was  interred  in  friends 
burying  ground  at  Corke.  Eliz^  went  hence  with  some 
friends  of  Corke  ye  25th  Ins1  to  the  Six  Weeks  .Meeting  at 
-Cashcll,  return'd  y°30th-  went  to  Bandon  io1b  &  2d  rctum'd 
next  day  had  a  Meeting  w^  the  3Toung  people  the  7th  & 
remained  here  being  sickly  until]  12th  t  nih,  then  went 
to  Waterford  where  she  was  also  sick,  &  thence  to  Rob' 
Lecky's  at  Kilnock  in  y*  Co  :  Carlow  &  there  died  5th  £  1.7th 
1-755. 


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1755. 

Elizth  Fehnell  with  her  Husband  Joshua  Fennell 
came  to  our  Pro:  Meeting  the  7th  Instant,  In  ye  first  day 
j  morning  meeting  she  was  concernd  in  a  prophetick 
i  manner  to  speak  of  a  trying  time  approaching,  &  ye  next 
day  was  veiy  sweetly  open'd  in  encouragement  to  the 
youth,  and  said  it  was  the  Lords  determination  that  the 
Truth  shall  prosper  &  Possess  the  Gates  of  it's  Enemies. 

6th  £  13th.  John  Bradford  Lancashire,  George  Mason 
Yorkshire,  Robert  Holmes  Norfolk,  Landed  here  from 
England,  John  &  George  went  to  Bandon  ye  %8tb  retd  ye 
19th  &  went  to  Youghall  ye  23d. 

14.  John  Storer  Nottingham  came  here  from 
Youghall,  sta}7ed  our  first  day  Meetings,  went  to  Bandon 
the  16th  return'd  same  day,  &  ye  17^  went  to  ye  Co: 
Tipperary  &  with  him  Rob*  Holmes  aforesaid. 

21.  Samuel  Spevold  Hartfordshire  came  here  from 
Limerick,  stay'd  our  first  &  third  day  Meetings,  went  to 
Bandon  the  24th  return'd  the  25th  &  the  30<-!l  went  to 
Youghall. 

8th  s  14th.  Isabella  Middleton  Dublin  came  here  from 
Youghall  went  the  15th  to  Bandon  return'd  the  16th  &  the 
1 8th  went  towards  Limerick. 

16th.  Jane  Fayle  near  Edenderry,  Sarah  Williams 
Co.  Wexford,  came  here  from  Youghall  stay'cl  our  first 
day  Meetings  went  to  Bandon  the  18th  return'd  the  19th 
&  ye  20th  went  towards  Limerick. 

12th  £  14th.  James  Keyes  Wat  erf  or  d,  came  to  our 
Pro  :  Meeting  &  had  good  service  amongst  us. 

1756. 

3d  &  8th.  Susanna  Hatton  Wat  erf  or  d,  came  to  our 
Quarterly  Meeting,  &  her  service  was  very  acceptable  to 
friends. 

7th  I  10th.  Elizabeth  Ferinell  came  to  our  Pro: 
Meeting  &  had  a  Meeting  the  14th  with  the  young  Women, 
stay'd  till  the  24th  and  then  went  to  Youghall  returnd  ye 
29th  stay'd  till  9th  £  8fr*  &  then  went  homewards  having 
had  several  meetings  to  the  Comfort  &  Satisfaction  of 
the  weli  minded. 

8*  2  7th.  Robert  Proud,  John  Stephenson,  York- 
shire, came  here  from  Youghall  stay'd  first  day  Meetings, 


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second  day  went  to  Bandon  return'd  same  da}r,  &  next 
day  had  a  Meeting  at  Corke  &  fourth  day  went  towards 
Limerick. 

9th  «  25th.  Abraham  Farrington  Burlington  County 
in  Pensylvania  accompany'd  by  Sam1  Emblem  a  young 
man  not  publick  but  came  forth  in  publick  testimony  in 
this  Nation.  They  stay'd  first  day  Meetings  &  was  at  our 
Mens  &  Woinens  Meetings  next  day  wherein  Abim  was 
livingly  &  divinely  opened  in  Counsel  &  advice,  stay'd 
third  day  Meeting,  4th  day  went  to  Bandon,  5th  day  to 
KinVaie,  return 'd  &  was  at  our  sixth  day  Meeting  wherein 
he  said  the  Lord  was  about  to  call  some  to  an  accfc  (tho  it 
may  not  be  a  final  acc1)  for  the  manyfolessings  they  enjoyed, 
&  would  extend  a  day  of  fresh  visitation  to  them  if  they 
would  be  faithfull.  Also  that  he  thought  the  time  was  not- 
far  off  when  the  Lord  would  say  to  the  North  give  up 
&  to  the  South  keep  not  back,  &c  recommending  us  to 
waiting  on  the  Lord  with  a  single  eye,  for  that  the  Sword 
of  the  Lord  was  drawn  which  would  not  be  sheathed  untill 
the  Lord  had  made  Inquisition  for  blood.  The}'  went 
hence  next  day  to  the  Pro  :  Meeting  at  Youghall. 

11th  I  19th.  James  Clothier  Somerset,  Susanna  Hatton 
Waterford,  James  Keyes  Waterford,  were  at  our 
Quarterly  Meeting  and  had  a  meeting  with  the  young 
Women  at  the  rising  of  third  day  morning  Meeting. 

1757. 

4th  I  i6'h.  Susanna  Hatton  Waterford  came  to  our 
Quarterly  Meeting  &  had  a  Meeting  with  the  young 
Women  at  the  rising  of  third  day  Morning  Meeting. 

6th  m  4th.  James  Torney  Limerick,  James  Keyes 
Waterford,  EHzth  Fennell,  Kilcommon  came  to  our  Province 
Meeting  the  two  former  went  hence  the  7*h,  but  E.Uztb 
stay'd  till  the  18*  &  went  hence  to  Youghall. 

21.  Jane  Crossfield  formerly  Rowlandson  who 
visited  this  Nation  in  if  43  with  Alee  Aldersorj  came  now 
with  Lucy  Bradley  from  Bristol,  They  went  to  Bandon  the 
22d  return'd  3*  23d  were  at  our  sixth  first  &  third  days 
Meetings  S:  went  hence  to  Youghall  the  zS%  They  were 
able  &  powerful!  Ministers  of  the  Gospel. 

7th  »  12%  Samuel  Neal  Clonivoe  accompany'd  by 
Samuel  Williams  of  Dublin  a  Young  Man  not  Publick 


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They  went  next  day  to  Bandon  return'd  &  were  at  our  sixth 
first  &  third  da}rs  Meetings  &  went  hence  the  21st  to  Kil- 
commori. 

9mo  15.6  William  Bragg  from  Bristol  was  at  our  first 
&  third  days  Meetings  &  went  towards  Youghall  the  20th 
but  went  not  to  Bandon. 

James  Reyes,  Elizth  Fennel).,  to  Pipy.  Quarterly 
Meeting  &  stayd  to  assist  in  pforming  a  Visit  to  the 
Families  of  jTrds  in  this  City  wch  was  very  Acceptable. 

i2mo  28.  John  Alderson  (from  Westmorland)  son  to 
j  the  before" men fiorfe'd  Alice  Alderson,  came  here  from 
Youghall  &  went  the  da}'  following  to  Bandon  &  on  the 
30th  returnd  &  was  at  our  6th  days  Meeting  at  which  he  was 
wholly  silent  but  on  the  first  day  following  he  had  good 
service  speaking  home  to  divers  states  &  particularly  such 
as  have  Deistical  Notions  he  went  hence  the  4th  of  the  Ist 
Month  towards  the  Quarterly  Meeting  of  Limerick. 7 

j  I76l. 

;  ymo.    James  Daniel  of  Salem  County  in  West  Jersey 

j    in  America  Landed  at  Cove  &  was  at  our  sixth  days 

Meeting  on  the  10th  at  which  he  was  wholly  silent. 

&™  8*     David  Saul,  David  Bell,  from  the  North  of 

England. 

iimo  26.  Anne  White  from  Coventry,  Ruth  Follis 
from  Leicestershire,  they  visited  Youghal  &  Bandon  & 
returnd  to  our  Quarterly  Meeting  ye  6th  &  7th  of  i2mo. 

1762. 

3mo  8.  Ruth  Follis  came  again  &  was  at  our  Meeting 
this  day. 

4m!>  11.  Sam1  Spa  void  of  Hitching  Hertfordshire, 
Dan1  Rose  of  Colebrook  Dale  Shropshire  were  at  our 
pro  :  Meeting,  Sam1  went  the  19th  towards  Limerick  but 
Dan1  was  confined  several  weeks  at  Ab.  Fullers  being  111 
of  a  Fever. 

jmo  j^th.  Joseph  Oxl y  of  Norwich,  Nephew  to 
Edmund  Peckover  was  at  our  6th  &  first  days  Meetings 
went  to  Bandon  stayd  our  3d  days  Meeting  the  20th  & 

0  There  is  another  change  of  handwriting  from  this  entry. 
'  After  this  entry  there  are  seven  blank  pages  in  the  MS. 


26z  THE  CAMBRIDGE  «  JOURNAL 


went  towards  Limerick  the  21,  he  was  a  Sound  Minister 
a  Worthy  Friend  and  a  most  agreeable  Companion. 

Sroo  16.  Ann  Summer! atod  from  Colebrook  Dale 
Thoa  Greer  from  the  North  of  Ireland  both  at  our 
Quarterly  Meeting. 

i»?  j2tb.    Anne  White  of  Coventry  before  mention'd. 

6™  5tb.  Martha  Williams  of  Pontypoole  came  here 
from  Youghall  &  next  day  went  to  Bandon  &  returnd 
next  day  to  our  week  day  Meeting  at  wch  she  was  wholly 
silent  on  the  seventh  day  following  she  went  to  Kinsale 
accompanyd  by  Abk*  Fuller  &  about  12  other  friends 
from  Corke  &  had  a  Meeting  there  on  the  first  day  of  y« 
week,  she  returnd  ye  next  day  &  stayd  our  week  day 
Meetings  &  first  day  Meetings  &  on  second  day  had  a 
Meeting  wth  the  Women  Friends  wch  was  to  good  satis- 
faction &  on  third  day  being  the  18th  of  the  month  set  out 
towards  Limerick  &  on  the  20th  had  a  Meeting  at  Ross,  on 
1  lie  21st  was  at  their  6th  days  Meeting  in  Limerick  at  the 
Marriage  of  Willm  Fennell  Joshua  of  Killcommon  & 
Mary  Lucas  daughter  of  Andrew  Lucas  of  Limerick  w*h 
which  marriage  she  seemed  to  have  good  Unity  &  said  she 
believed  that  if  they  kept  their  places  &  were  concerned 
tor  the  Honour  of  God  and  to  live  in  his  fear  their  latter 
end  will  be  greater  than  their  beginning. 


Z%t  tamteibcp  "  $mxnat  of  George  fo*" 

Continued  from  p.  50 


37. — Vol.  II.  p.  324. — For  the  names  and  other  particulars  relating 
to  the  Priest  convinced  in  Poland,  arid  his  family,  see  pp.  149-152  of  this 
volume  of  TjftE  Journal. 

f  After  a  blank  page  this  line  appears  at  the  head  of  another  page- 
without  further  entries.    Then  follow  four  blank  pages. 

Many  of  above  Friend:;  are  mentioned  in  Occurences  for  th:  Service 
of  Truth,  see  The  Journal,  ii. 


/2s|^HE  autumn  of  168S  had  made  shipwreck  of  the 
g^j,  Stuart  fortunes,  and  during  the  winter  months 
that  followed,  the  shores  of  France  and  the 
remoter  counties  of  England  were  strewn  with 
the  wreckage.  Amongst  the  flotsam  and  jetsam  cast 
up  by  this  calamity  there  was  no  figure  so  remarkable 
as  that  of  Jane  Stuart,  the  King's  natural  daughter. 
She  Had  spent  the  thirty-five  years  of  her  life  at  the  Court 
— an  acknowledged  and  favourite  child.  Then,  seizing 
the  opportunity  of  her  father's  flight,  she  herself  stole 
away  in  disguise  from  Whitehall,  and,  taking  no  one  into 
her  confidence,  travelled  alone  and  on  foot  through  half 
the- counties  of  England.  Trie  goal  of  her  journey  was 
Wisbech,  then  an  obscure  market-town  in  Cambridge- 
shire. She  had  chosen  it,  perhaps,  for  its  remoteness  and 
inaccessibility,  which  had  become  a  by-word  in  the 
seventeenth  century.  Arriving  towards  the  end  of  the 
summer,  she  joined  a  group  of  labourers  who  were  standing 
to  be  hired  beside  the  Old  Bridge,  where  farmers  still 
come  to  engage  their  extra  workers  at  hay-time  and 
harvest.  In  spite  of  her  evident  inexperience  she  was 
hired  with  the  others  and  sent  out  to  reap  in  the  fields. 
So  great  was  her  industry  that  before  the  season  was 
over  she  had  come  to  be  known  as  the  "  Queen  of  the 
Reapers  " — a  strange  title  for  a  woman  whose  sister  was 
even  then  seated  upon  the  throne  of  England.  As  the 
winter  drew  on  she  bought  a  spinning-wheel,  and,  hiring 
a  cellar,  she  took  home  the  flax  and  wool  which  are  the 
chief  produce  of  that  grazing  and  agricultural  count}7. 
Then,  sitting  on  a  stand  in  the  market-place,  amongst  the 
farmers'  wives,  she  sold  the  thread  which  she  had  spun. 
From  the  time  of  her  arrival  she  attached  herself  to  the 
Quaker  Meeting,  a  little  community  which  was  beginning 
to  breathe  again  after  the  barbarous  persecutions  of  the 
reign  of  Char] '  5  II. 

Little  by  jittle  her  stoiy  leaked  out.    Her  speech  oi- 
lier habits  bewrayed  her.    She  was  discovered  in  the 

!  Portions  of  this  article  have  nreviously  appeared  ia  the  Glasgow 
Herald. 

263 


264     A  STUART  AMONG  THE  QUAKERS 


act  of  reading  the  Greek  Testament,  and  her  confusion 
still  further  aroused  the  suspicions  of  her  neighbours. 
Reluctant  as  she  was  to  speak  of  her  past  life,  the  day 
came  when  the  chief  facts  of  her  history  were  known  in 
the  town.  For  thirty  years  after  her  death  in  1742,  her 
memory  was  preserved  only  in  the  recollection  of  the 
inhabitants  who  had  known  her,  and  in  the  following 
entry  in  the  Friends'  Registry  of  Burials  : — 

Jane  Stuart  departed  this  Life  on  12th  of  7th  mo,  1742,  on  first  day, 
about  1  oclock  ye  14th  aged  '8S.  Supposed  to  be  descended  from 
James  2hd  me  rived  in  a  cellar  in  the  Old  Market  Wisbech — the  house 
has  been  rebuilt  by  Chs.  Freeman. 

But  in  1773  the  grandfather  of  the  present  Lord 
Peckover  came  to  live  in  Wisbech,  and  set  himself  to  collect 
such  details  as  still  survived.  In  1809  they  appeared  for 
the  first  time  in  print  in  an  article  in  the  Monthly  Magazine 
or  British  Register,  vol.  28.  I  am  indebted  for  this  informa- 
tion, as  well  as  for  some  further  particulars,  to  the  kindness 
of  Lord  Peckover  of  Wisbech.  He  can  himself  remember 
his  grandfather,  who  died  in  1833,  and  thus  forms,  a  link, 
however  slender,  with  this  surprising  history. 

Jane  Stuart  was  born  in  Paris  in  1654,  a  natural 
daughter  of  the  exiled  Duke  of  York,  but  happy  beyond 
the  usual  fate  of  these  children  in  bearing  her  father's 
name.  It  is  significant  that  her  mother's  identity  has 
never  been  known,  though  she  is  believed  to  have  been 
a  Maid  of  Honour  to  Queen  Henrietta  Maria,  and  a 
Protestant.  This  secrecy  seems  to  indicate  that  she  came 
of  a  family  which  felt  the  disgrace  of  the  royal  favours, 
and  the  name  of  Stuart  may  have  been  granted  to  the 
child  as  an  expiation  of  the  wrong  done  to  her  mother. 
She  may  have  been  one  of  the  ladies  referred,  to  by  the 
Earl  of  Sandwich,  when  he  declared  that  Anne  Hyde  was 
not  singular  in  being  able  to  produce  a  promise  of  marriage, 
signed  by  James  with  his  own  blood  while  he  was  resident 
in  France. 

At  the  time  of  Jane's  birth,  her  father  was  a  youth 
of  twenty-one,  handsome,  brave  and.  affable.  He  was  the 
idol,  if  we  may  believe  Chancellor  Hyde,  of  the  French 
Court,  and  of  the  Arinj,  to  which  he  was  attached  as  a 
member  of  the  staff  of"  Marshal  J  Turenne.    But  in  1658 


A  STUART  AMONG  THE  QUAKERS  265 


the  French  Treaty  with  Cromwell  obliged  him  to  leave  the 
comity  and  to  resign  his  commission.  He  removed  with 
his  whole  household,  which  included  his  little  daughter, 
to  Bruges.  Here  and  at  Brussels  she  grew  up  in  the  midst 
of  a  society  only  less  corrupt  than  that  of  the  Court  of 
the  Restoration.  When  in  1660  the  exiles  were  welcomed 
back  to  Whitehall,  she  came  to  England  in  her  father's 
train  ;  and  when  he  set  up  his  establishment  on  a  scale 
comparable  to  that  of  the  King  himself,  he  was  careful 
tha.t  proper  provision  should  be  made  for  the  child. 

In  the  following  autumn  his  secret  marriage  was 
acknowledged  with  the  daughter  of  Sir  Edward  Hyde, 
the  Chancellor,  whose  loyalty  had  been  newly  rewarded 
by  a  peerage.  The  bride  brought  the  leaven  of  decent 
middle-class  virtues  into  James's  household,  and  it  is  to 
her  influence  that  one  can  trace  many  of  the  qualities  in 
Jane  Stuart  which  would  be  otherwise  inexplicable — 
her  integrity  and  economy,  her  love  of  learning,  and  her 
purity  of  life. 

Jane's  attachment  to  the  Quakers,  which  showed 
itself  while  she  was  still  living  at  St.  James's,  is  easi^ 
capable  of  explanation.  The  Friends  held  a  prescriptive 
right,  which  they  still  possess,  to  appear  before  the 
King,  and  during  the  persecution  which  followed  the 
Conventicle  Act,  the}1-  came  almost  daily  to  Charles 
the  Second  to  plead  the  cause  of  their  Society.  Their 
"  Thou  Speech,"  as  it  was  called,  and  their  quaint 
dress,  crowned  by  the  hats  which  they  refused  to 
remove  on  a  point  of  conscience,  were  familiar  to  every 
habitue  of  the  Court.  The  Duke  of  York  was  notoriously 
friendly  to  them,  and  added  to  the  distrust  with  which  he 
was  regarded  by  his  intimacy  with  William  Penn,  the  son 
of  his  favourite  Admiral.  Jane  Stuart  herself  travelled 
in  German}^  in.  her  girlhood,  where  she  would  be  enter- 
tained by  her  father's  cousin,  the  learned  Princess 
Elizabeth  of  Bohemia,  the  correspondent  of  Fox  and  Penn, 
and  a  kind  hostess  to  many  wandering  Quakers.  Jane 
Stuart's  "  conviucernent  "  to  their  principles  brought  no 
difference  in  her  position. 

It  is  related,  though  the  tale  has  the  smack  of 
legend,  that  she  pushed  her  beliefs  to  the  only  conclusion 
possible   at  the  time,   and   suricn'd  imprisonment  at 


266     A  STUART  AMONG  THE  QUAKERS 


Newgate,  in  the  company  of  Thomas  Ellvvood.  Elhvood 
was  confined  in  Bridewell  and  Newgate  in  1662,  when 
Jane  was  a  child  of  eight,  and  his  last  imprisonment 
was  at  High  Wycombe  (not  in  London),  'when  she  was 
still  only  twelve  years  of  age.  Even  in  those  brutal 
times,  a  Dissenter  under  the  age  of  sixteen  was  not 
punishable  by  law.2  If  it  be  true  that  this  daughter 
of  the  Stuarts  suffered  in  jail  for  her  religion,  it  was  not 
in  the  company  of  Milton's  friend.  There  is  no  account 
of  her  trial  and  punishment  in  the  Quaker  records. 

One  other  anecdote  of  her  girlhood  has  been  pre- 
served and  may  be  accepted  as  authentic.  It  gives  a 
tantalising  glimpse  of  a  love-story,  which  must  have 
been  one  of  the  strangest  and  most  idyllic  of  her  many- 
coloured  memories.  Even  now,  dim  and  broken  as  it  is, 
it  preserves  some  faint  trace  of  its  former  beaut}".  During 
her  life  in  London,  Jane  gave  her  heart  to  a  man  whose 
name  and  station  are  alike  unrecorded,  and  whose  sole 
surviving  feature  had  been  his  desire  to  marry  her  for  her 
own  sake,  and  his  willingness  to  share  the  obloquy  and 
peril  of  the  life  of  a  humble  Quaker.  It  seems  most 
likely  that  he  was  himself  a  Friend,  and  that  his  quaint 
speech  and  plain  dress  had  won  the  love  of  his  mistress 
above  all  the  glitter  of  her  noble  suitors.  The  marriage 
was  to  be  celebrated  according  to  the  Quaker  form. 
When  the  day  came,  the  bride  and  bridegroom,  accom- 
panied only  by  his  brother,  set  out  in  a  coach  for  the 
Friends'  Meeting  House.  Before  they  could  reach  it, 
however,  the  horses  took  fright,  and  the  coach  was  over- 
turned— an  accident  which  was  common  enough  in  those 
days  of  unmade  roads  and  top-heavy  carriages.  The 
bridegroom  was  killed  on  the  spot,  though  Jane  herself 
was  unhurt,  and  the  brother  escaped  with  a  broken  leg. 
The  bride  did  not  stay  to  indulge  her  grief.  She  insisted 
on  continuing  her  journey,  and  carried  the  brother  to 
lodgings  in  London,  where  his  leg  might  be  set  with  some 
hope  of  success.  Not  content  with  this  service,  she  stayed 
with  him  and  nursed  him  herself  until  his  recovery. 

The  story  is  welcome  in  the  midst  of  a  chronicle 
so  disappointingly  barren  of  illustration,  or  of  explana- 

1  True,  but  Katharine  I.x>ng.  oft.  Peckover,  was  imprisoned  With  her 
mother  Li  Norwich.,  before  she  was  sixteen.    {F.  P.  T. )    (Ed.  ) 


A  STUART  AMONG  THE  QUAKERS  267 


tory  detail.  If  we  reject  the  tradition  of  her  imprisonment 
the  account  of  her  intended  marriage  is  sufficient  evidence 
of  the  thoroughness  with  which  she  had  identified  herself 
with  the  Quakers,  and  lier  conduct  throughout  the 
adventure  gives  such  proof  of  her  disregard  for  convention 
as  might  prepare  us  in  some  degree  for  her  later  actions. 

The  only  other  picture  which  she  has  left  of  this  period 
of  her  life  is  a  glimpse  of  the  infant  Prince,  afterwards 
the  Old  Pretender,  "  a  little  white-headed  boy,"  whom 
she  nursed  upon  her  knee.  His  birth  gave  the  signal 
for  the  Revolution,  and  in  a  few  months  Jane  herself 
was  an  exile,  working  unknown  amongst  the  fields  of 
Wisbech.  At  first  some  effort  seems  to  have  been  made  to 
draw  her  back  to  her  old  life.  The  partisans  of  the  new 
King  in  particular  desired  her  presence  as  a  witness  to 
their  contention  that  the  new-born  Prince  was  a  sup- 
posititious child,  and  not  the  heir  to  the  throne.  The 
Duke  of  Argyll  succeeded  in  fact  in  tracing  her  as  far  as 
Wisbech.  But  Jane  recognised  the  familiar  arms  upon 
his  coach,  as  she  sat  in  her  stall  in  the  market-place,  and 
hastily  packing  up  her  thread,  she  hid  herself  until  the 
search  which  she  had  foreseen  had  been  abandoned. 

Once,  indeed,  she  was  tempted  out  of  her  retreat. 
When  her  brother,  the  Old  Pretender,  landed  at  Peter- 
head,  to  lead  the  ill-fated  rising  of  the  '15,  Jane  Stuart 
hired  a  chaise  and  travelled  the  300  miles  into  Scotland 
to  see  him,  a  journey  which  is  in  itself  sufficient 
corroboration  of  his  claim  to  be  the  son  of  James  the 
Second. 

With  this  brief  and  heart-stirring  interlude  her  life 
pursued  its  even  course  for  fifty-four  years.  Through  the 
summer  she  worked  in  the  fields,  and  in  the  winter  she 
toiled  at  the  spinning-wheel  in  her  dark  cellar,  or  sat  with- 
out awning  or  shelter  among  the  farmers'  wives  in  the 
. market-place.  Her  cellar  was  filled  with  birds,  which 
she  loved  and  cared  for.  She  was  never  so  happy  as  in 
the  company  of  children,  to  whom,  it  is  related,  "  she 
gave  suitable  religious  advice  when  opportunity  offered." 

The  last  scene  of  her  life  has  a  touch  of  that  romantic 
pathos  which  was  the  birthright  of  all  her  family.  She 
had  fainted  one  day  in  the  Friends'  Graveyard,  and,  as 
she  came  to  herself,  the  peace  of  that  green  shade  stole 


Vo!.  sr.— -127, 


268     A  STUART  AMONG  THE  QUAKERS 


into  her  brain,  and  she  asked  that  when  she  died  she  might 
be  buried  in  the  place  'where  she  had  fallen.  She  had  a 
rowan  tree  planted  to  mark  the  spot — a  tree,  as  one  of  her 
chroniclers  has  noted,  most  fitted  to  guard  the  resting- 
place  of  a  daughter  of  Scotland.  The  tree  grew  too 
large  for  the  little  graveyard,  and  was  eventually  cut 
down  and  sold  for  twelve  shillings.  But  the  grave  is  not 
im  cared  for.  Some  reverent  hand  has  hedged  it  round 
with  box,  and  her  initials,  with  her  age,  eighty-eight, 
and  the  date,  1742,  grow  in  evergreen  letters  upon  it. 
She  wa?  fv&rlTaps  the  happiest  of  all  her  ill-starred  race, 
ior  she  has  left  it  on  record  In  the  only  saying  of  hers 
that  has  come  down  to  us,  that  "  she  enjoyed  such  content- 
ment and  peace  that  she  would  not  leave  her  cell  and 
spinning-wheel  to  be  the  Queen  of  England." 

Mabel  R.  Brailsford. 

The  Manse,  Williton,  Som. 


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The  truest  end  of  life  is  to  know  the  life  that  never  ends.  William 
Reflections  cud  Maxims,  i.  489. 


To  the  Men  and  Women  s  Meeting  jn  Bristoll 
Dear  Friends 

Tis  now  aboue  forty  years  when  your  acquaintance 
was  first  dear  to  me,  among  Whome  haue  offten  beheld 
that  comh'ness  wch  more  &  more  engaged  my  Soul  to  Seek 
&  lode  the  Lord  the  anther  thereof,  y*  he  might  Stamp 
his  Jmage  vpon  me,  who  was  pleasd  comfortably  to  apear 
&  vnite  me  nearer  &  nearer  to  his  People  &  Raised 
Suplycatio  that  as  Good  Joshua  Resolued,  So  J  &  my 
house  might  Serue  the  Lord  among  you  to  the  end  of 
my-days,  And  it  was  to  my  Great  Satisfaction  wn  J  Setled 
my  daughter  Mary  amongst  you  whose  care  J  knew  was 
Great  over  the  Church,  and  J  hoped  that  it  would  haue 
been  her  care  not  to  Offend  the  Loid  nor  Grieue  his  people 
at  any  time,  for  vnto  the  protection  of  the  one  &  the  care 
of  the  other  J  had  in  my  heart  recommended  her,  But 
now  by  an  vnexpected  Occation  am  to  acquaint  you  that 
J  fear  She  hath  Some  Jnclynations  contrary  to  the  order 
of  truth  to  marry  one  Richard  Dolton  who  hath  not  had 
comunion  with  us.  J  am  therefore  constrain*  also  to  acq* 
you  both  to  clear  my  Selfe  &  Satisfie  you  y*  there  might 
be  no  hard  thought  of  me,  J  haue  no  hand  in  it,  but  always 
ad  viced  her  to  Obserue  yor  Council!  who  were  as  fathers 
&  mothers  Jn  Jsraell,  belieueing  that  Some  among  you 
would  be  made  as  Jnstruemts  to  Effect  those  things  for  her 
y*  might  be  a  comfort  to  3<orselues,  her  &  me,  both  in  her 
Spirituall  &  temporal!  affairs  &  the  Experience  airedy 
had  of  Seuerail  of  you  confirms  the  same,  so  that  if  she 
.were  minded  to  alter  her  condition  (as  indeed  J  thought 
there  would  be  Occation  for  it  in  her  way  of  trade)  your 
abrobation  [i.e.,  approbation]  therein  should  be  mine 
and  now  as  my  Child  is  placed  among  you  &  my  selfe  & 
others  that  wish  her  weft  being  so  remote,  J  desire  yor 
tender  care  over  her  as  Nurses  over  the  young  Generation, 
hopeing  the  Lord  will  so  Extend  yor  adminitions  y*  she 
may  Keepe  her  unity  w*h  the  Lord  &  his  people,  as  to  the 
man  J  can  say  but  litle  being  a  stranger  but  his  Relations 
haue  been  reputed  a  sober  honest  people,  &  tho  he  prtends 

269 


270  "GOING  OUT  FOR  A  HUSBAND  AND  WIFE" 


that  this  acquaintance  wth  her  &  so  wth  friends  declarations 
in  meetings  hath  brought  him  to  see  how  falcely  frds  were 
asperst  by  the  black  coverings  others  threw  on  them, 
&  y*  he  is  now  affected  wth  truth  &  the  good  ordr  of  it,  but 
as  this  Seems  not  to  me  as  yet  to  be  Grounded  on  a  sure 
foundation,  J  leaue  you  to  Judge  &  must  Still  Comitt 
her  to  yr  Care  &  tender  loue  to  keepe  truth,  yorselues 
&  her  unspotted  from  the  World,  and  if  she  hath  alredy 
apeard  to  any  of  your  Grief es  J  hope  she  may  be  Restored 
by  your  tender  Gentle  leadings.  So  with  dear  loue  J 
salute  you  all  &  Remaine  your  Loueing  friend 

Wm.  Be  van 

Receud  &  deliued  to  }*e  meeting 

ye  iQth  of  3"e  2d  month  1699. 

[Addressed]  For  Edward  Loyd 
march*  in  Cornc  Street 
Bristol!. 

[Endorsed]  jTor  the  Mens  Meting  there 
p  William  Beuan  of  Swansey. 

From  Bristol  MSS.  v.  120. 


"  (Botng  out  for  a  %m%a\xb  anb  QJMfe  " 


Dolgyn,  16  ii.  1732.  Went  to  meeting  with  Masters1  and  most 
of  my  Family  where  were  our  Friends  Agnes  Tomlinson2  Hannah 
Stevenson*  and  Arthur  Jones.-*    Agnes  was  closely  concerned  to  advise 

1  John  Kelsall  was  employed  by  several  members  of  the  Payton 
family  in  their  ironworks. 

2  For  Agnes  Tomlinson  (c.  1692-1756),  of  Preston,  afterwards 
H agger,  of  London,  see  The  Journal,  v.  191. 

These  three  visitors  had  been  at  the  Wales  Y.M.  recently  held  at 
Bala. 

J  The  births  of  several  children  of  Daniel  and  Hannah  Stevenson, 
of  Kendal,  are  recorded  in  the  Westmorland  Registers  between  1715 
and  172.5,  but  Hannah  is  not  among  them.  She  was  probably  an  earlier, 
unregistered  daughter.  The  Burial.  Register  records  the  death  of  Hannah, 
daughter  of  Daniel  and  Hannah  Stevenson,  in  1739,  but  docs  not  state 
age  at  death. 

'  Arthur  Jones  (1690-1742)  was  born  near  Bala,  North  Wales.  He 
settled  in  Pa.  in  early  life.  He  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Thomas 
LighUoot,  in  17T7.    The  writer  of   "  Biographical  Sketches,"  which 


"  GOING  OUT  FOR  A  HUSBAND  AND  WIFE*1  271 


all  to  faithfulness  and  keeping  up  the  Testimony  of  Truth,  with  many 
other  good  exhortations,  &c  Hannah  was  concerned  to  declare  that 
the  Lord's  visitation  was  to  some  in  that  place  in  order  to  bring  them 
forth  into  the  ministry,  earnestly  desiring  they  might  freely  give  up  to 
the  Lord's  requirings.  They  were  also  jointly  concerned  in  a  way  of 
Jealousy  lest  any  should  join  with  something  that  was  as  the  accursed 
tiling,  as  going  out  for  a  Husband  and  Wife,  and  were  fearful  some  there 
might  have  gone  too  far  that  way,  warning  them  to  return. 

A.  T.  was  also  concerned  to  declare  that  she  thought  the  stroke  of 
death  was  nearer  to  some  than  they  perhaps  were  aware  of.  There  was 
a  good  and  comfortable  opportunity  and  a  tender  refreshing  time. 

In  the  afternoon  they,  with  other  Friends,  came  down  to  our  house, 
where  we  had  a  good,  solid,  comfortable  time,  Hannah  being  drawn  forth 
in  an  excellent  manner  to  declare  of  the  Lord's  dealings  with  her,  and 
though  she  was  young  and  lately  come  to  the  Testimony  in  meetings, 
yet  she  was  very  deep  and  powerful,  having  heretofore  been  careless,  wild 
and  much  inclined  to  the  foolish  vanities  of  the  world,  from  which  she 
tenderly  desired  young  people  might  be  turned.  Agnes  also  had  a  very 
fine  time,  advising  the  young  ones  to  keep  to  Truth,  sobriety,  obedience 
to  parents,  &c  Arthur  was  particularly  concerned  towards  our  chil- 
dren that  they  might  come  up  in  the  way  of  Truth  and  be  obedient  to 
the  guidance  thereof  in  all  things  and  avoid  all  hurtfull  and  evil  things. 
It  was  a  sweet  and  bedewing  opportunity  to  our  great  comfort  and 
refreshment  and  I  greatly  desire  we  ma}'  be  truly  thankful  for  the  same 
and  answer  the  Lord's  love  and  kindness  in  such  his  visitations  to  us. 

Diaries  of  John  Kelsall,  vi.  304  MS.  in  D.  (copy). 


[r755]-  Some  time  this  Spring  (as  I  understand)  Two  women  fr~* 
from  America,  their  names  (I  think)  Sarah  Worral,  &  Elizabeth  Ashbridge 
both  died  in  Ireland,  after  having  visited  part  of  that  nation  &  some 
part  of  this;  One  of  them  before  She  died  left  it  as  a  caution  to  such  as 
might  be  under  a  like  concern,  not  to  navel  too  hard  intimating  it  had 
been  fatal  to  herself  &  Companion  who  dyed  but  a  very  little  before  her. 

From  MS.  in  D.  Memorandum*  relating  to  Travelling  Public!; 
Friends  ai  Darlington,  with  other  occurrences.  1754-5-6,  p.  22.  See 
The  Journal,  x.  258. 

appeared  in  The  Friend  (Phila.),  has  this  note  about  Arthur  Jones 
(1856,  p.  36)  : — "  Perhaps  his  zeal  may  at  times  have  overstepped  the 
bounds  of  prudence,  and  have  stirred  up  unpleasant  feelings  in  come 
against  him.'  In  the  year  1736,  a  Friend  from  England,  then  on  a  religious 
visit  to  this  country,  made  an  open,  attack  upon  him  in  the  meeting  at 
North  Wales  [Pa].  This  occasioned  a  difficulty,  and  when  the  Friend  was 
returning  home  the  Yearly  Meeting  of  Ministers  declined  furnishing  him 
a  returning  certificate,  until  he  had  publicly  condemned  his  attack  on 
Arthur  Jones."  According  to  John  Kelsall  {Diaries,  vi.  232*),  "  lie 
appeared  to  be  a  very  tender  humble  man,"  and  "  was  concerned  in 
Welch." 


jfrtenfcs  in  (Hova  c§coftar  1785 


A*\  X  page  41  there  appears  a  question  respecting  Meetings  of  Friends 
in  Nova  Scotia.  The  following  information,  taken  mainly  from 
official  sources,  may  prove  of  interest  to  the  querist  and  others. 
The  emigration  northward  was  one  result  of  the  War  of  Independence, 
but  it  is  not  evident  that  it  was  prompted  by  any  question  of  military 
service. 

In  1785,  Philadelphia  Meeting  for  Sufferings,  in  an  Epistle  to  London, 
mentions  that  the  situation  of  members  who  had  lately  settled  in  Nova 
Scotia  had  received  attention,  "  there  being  among  them  many  Women  and 
Children  who  are  members  of  our  Religious  Society,  and  have  been  under 
the  necessity  oi  following  their  Husbands  and  Parents  to  that  new7  settle- 
ment," and  that  a  collection  of  books  had  been  sent  to  them  by  a  Friend 
travelling  thither  on  a  mercantile  voyage. 

London  Friends,  in  their  reply  to  Philadelphia,  2nd  of  12  mo.  1785, 
write : — 

.  "  By  3'our  communication  concerning  your  attention  to  the  poor 
Emigrants  to  Nova  Scotia,  it  appears  that  you  have  been  similarly 
engaged  with  us.  We  had  in  the  summer  by  private  means  intelligence  of 
several  Families  being  settled  at  Beavor  Harbour,  and  about. Pan  Town, 
and  accordingly  sent  them  50  of  our  last  Yearly  Meetings  Epistles,  50 
.  Brook  on  Silent  Waiting,  50  Crooks  truth's  principles,  and  20  Testaments, 
desiring  the  Friend  who  forwarded  them  to  make  further  enquiry 
respecting  their  numbers  and  situation.  Secluded  thus  from  the  advantage 
of  better  settled  provinces  and  less  inclement  climates,  and  especially 
from  those  of  religious  Society  and  Example,  they  are  certainly  the  objects 
of  sympathy."1 

Philadelphia,  17S6,  5  mo.  18,  reports  : — 

"  The  Case  of  those  People  who  have  taken  Refuge  and  settled  in 
Nova  Scotia  continues  to  engage  the  attention  and  sympathy  of  Friends 
here,  two  of  our  Brethren  having  within  these  few  days  embarked  on  a 
religious  Visit  to  those  parts  ;  our  beloved  Friend  John  Townsend  of  your 
city  being  under  the  like  concern." 

11  mo.  3,  17S6.  London  Friends  express  satisfaction  in  the  con- 
tinued care  of  Philadelphia  Meeting  for  Sufferings  towards  settlers  in 
Nova  Scotia,  and  have  heard  that  the  books  sent  were  well  received. 

In  a  letter  dated  18th  of  10  mo.  1767,  Philadelphia  Friends  write  : — 

"  In  the  Course  of  the  Summer  last  year,  a  religious  Visit  was  per- 
fonned  to  divers  parts  of  the  Country  of  Nova  Scotia,  by  three  of  our 
beloved  Friends,  viz.,  John  Townsend  of  your  city,  Abria  Gibbons 
and  Joseph  Moore,  Members  of  our  Yearly  Meeting,  from  whom  we  have 
received  an  Account  of  a  considerable  Number  in  different  places  who 

*  The  Friend  who  asked  for  books  for  Nova  Scotia  was  Thomas 
Wagstalie.  Unfortimately  there  is  very  little  known  of  Thomas  Wag- 
starie's  correspondence,  and  the  occasion  oi  his  interest  in  Nova  Scotia  is 
not  apparent. 


372 


FRIENDS  IN  NOVA  SCOTIA,  1785  273 


r.iake  Profession  with  us,  and  go  under  the  Name  of  Quakers,  with  a 
more  particular  Description  of  their  circumstances,  than  had  before  come 
to  our  knowledge  ;  especially  with  Regard  to  those  who  are  combating 
the  Hardships  and  difficulties  of  forming  a  new  Settlement  in  a  Wilder- 
ness at  Beaver  Harbour,  where  it  appears  are  upwards  of  forty  Persons 
Members  of  our  religious  Society,  four  or  five  of  them  Men,  the  rest  Women 
and  Children,  with  a  larger  Number  who  profess  with  us  not  having  a 
regular  Right  of  Membership.  The  Situation  of  these  Emigrants,  both 
v.-  h  respect  to  their  spiritual  and  temporal  Condition  and  exposure, 
as  well  as  the  reputation  of  our  Christian  profession,  claiming  the  Sym- 
pathy and  Attention  of  Friends,  this  Meeting  in  the  3-'  mo.  last, 
appointed  a  Committee  of  15  Friends  to  exercise  special  immediate  Care 
therein,  by  a  more  Minute  enquiry  into  their  Circumstances  and  how 
and  by  what  means  they  might  be  best  assisted  and  relieved,  both  as  to 
their  religious  encouragement  and  outward  support." 

They  give  information  from  their  Committee's  report  that  a  quantity 
of  Indian  meal  and  flour  has  been  sent  through  Friends  in  New  York, 
and^that  William  Wilson  and  Joseph  Moore  have  set  out  to  visit  Beaver 
Harbour  with  written  instructions  as  to  information  needed  and  a  sum 
of  money  to  be  applied  at  their  discretion. 

.  2  mo.  2Q.  1788.    London  to  Philadelphia  : — 

"  We  have  observed  the  Situation  of  those  Friends  and  others  who 
have  gone  to  settle  in  Nova  Scotia,  and  the  kind  and  friendly  care 
extended  by  you  to  them.  We  being  also  disposed  to  afford  these  poor 
Emigrants  some  assistance  have  out  of  the  Money  raised  by  subscription 
for  Friends  in  America,  alotted  the  sum  of  Five  hundred  pounds  Sterling 
for  their  use  and  to  be  sent  them  in  various  Articles  agreeable  to  your 
Intimation." 

12  mo.  iS,  1788.  Philadelphia  Friends  send  to  London  information 
from  the  latest  visitors  to  the  country  of  those  most  suited  to  receive 
assistance. 

7  mo.  10,  1789.  Loudon  Friends  express  surprise  at  having  re- 
ceived no  acknowledgment  from  Nova  Scotia  and  New  Brunswick  of  the 
receipt  of  articles  sent  7  mo.  178S,  which  articles  were  paid  for  from  the 
Fund  raised  for  Relief  of  Friends  in  America.  They  also  state  that 
"  Being  since  informed  that  a  considerable  number  of  free  black  People 
resident  in  those  Provinces  were  in  a  distressed  situation  some  Friends 
in  and  Near  this  City  contributed  upwards  of  £200  sterling  to  their 
Relief,  which  being  invested  in  salt  and  a  few  articles  of  coarse 
clothing,  was  sent  in  the  7:h  mo.  last  year  .  .  .  consigned  to 
Richd  ToWnsend  and  Rich'1  Townsend  Jim.  at  Shelbourne  in 
Nova  Scotia.  Of  this  Cargo  also,  although  we  have  heard  of  its  safe 
arrival,  we  have  not  yet  a  Particular  Account  of  the  Distribution, 
but  when  such  Accounts  arrive  we  hope  to  give  you  Information 
thereof." 

Philadelphia,  ri  mo.  19,  1789  : — 

"Your  benevolent  assistance  transmitted  for  the  relief  of  the 
Emigrants  at  Nova  Scotia  we  are  informed  by  letters  to  a  Member  of  this 
Meeting  was  gratefully  accepted,  and  such  care  taken  for  a  suitable 


274      WHICH  WAS  THE  GREATER  HERO? 


distribution  of  the  Articles  sent  them  that  they  proved  extensively  useful, 
of  which  we  have  reason,  to  believe  they  will  render  you  an  Account." 

No  account  of  distribution  was  received  by  London  Friends  direct 
from  Nova  Scotia,  and  in  12  mo.  1 790,  Philadelphia  Friends  regret  this, 
arid  as  they  have  no  regular  information  they  send  extracts  from  letters 
to  a  member  of  their  Meeting  giving  some  information  on  the  subject, 
and  ask  him  to  remind  the  Nova  Scotians  of  the  expediency  of  sending 
a  proper  account  to  London. 


ONCE  sat  beside  a  dying  soldier  at  Nashville  while  he  dictated  to 
me  his  last  words  to  the  wife  of  his  bosom  and  the  mother  of  his 
children.  He  grieved  over  the  forty  acres  in  the  backwoods  of 
Wisconsin,  over  which  hung  the  threatening  mortgage.  He  regretted  that 
the  clearing  he  had  left  was  so  small,  "But  say  to  her,"  he  said,  "that  I 
hope  she  will  be  able  to  hold  the  forty.    It  may  help  raise  the  children." 

Twenty  years  after  that,  at  a  reunion  of  the  "  old  boys,"  a  poor, 
prematurely  old,  shabbily  dressed  woman  sought  me.  Her  hands  were 
homy,  her  steps  faltering  and  uncertain.  She  was  very  conscious  of  the 
oid-fashioned  bonnet  she  wore.  With  tearless  eyes  and  unmusical  voice 
she  said  :  "  I  am  Bradley  Benson's  wife.  I  have  come  to  tell  you  that 
I  have  kept  the  forty,  but  I  do  not  know  as  I  have  done  well,"  and  turning 
to  the  unkempt,  physically  robust,  but  mentally  untrained  youth  by  her 
side,  she  added  :  "  This  is  Bradley's  oldest  son.  He  has  helped  me.  He 
has  been  a  good  boy,  but  he  has  had  no  schooling  and  he  feels  it  now." 
Bradley  Benson's  grave  has  a  marble  marker  in  the  National  Cemetery 
at  Nashville,  and  on  each  return  of  Decoration  Day  his  country's  flag 
is  renewed  and  flowers  are  laid  upon  his  grave. 

Another  twenty  years  and  more  have  fled  since  I  met  his  widow. 
Her  body  in  all  probability  has  found  rest  in  some  obscure  corner  of  a 
Wisconsin  graveyard,  and  the  forty  acres  in  the  woods  have  probably 
passed  into  other  hands.  It  is  not  likely  that  even  a  flag  marks  her  grave 
or  that  flowers  decorate  it.  But  I  submit  that  the  heroism  of  his  wife 
makes  pale  the  heroism  of  Bradley  Benson,  and  the  self-sacrifice  and 
devotion  of  the  boy  who  stood  by  his  mother  and  grappled  with  the 
forest  in  the  interest  of  his  young  brothers  and  sisters  indicate  as  fine  and 
high  a  spirit  as  was  ever  achieved  by  the  father. 

Jenkin  Lloyd  Jones,  LL.D.,  Peace,  Not  War,  ike  School  of  Heroism, 
Chicago,  1913. 


Believe  nothing  against  another,  but  upon  good  authority:  nor 
report  what  may  hurt  another,  unless  it  be  a  greater  hurt  to  others  to 
conceal  it. 

Pe>.tn,  Reflections  and  Maxims,  i.  J 45. 


Z%t  $f6rg  of  Qttarf&a  anb  Qttavg 


y\V|ILLIAM  G.  SMEAL,  of  Glasgow,  draws  attention  to  the  fact  that 
\**r  this  delightful  stoiy  appeared  in  The  British  Friend,  vol.  I  (1S43), 
p.  114,  over  the  name  Mary  Howitt.  Since  the  note  in  The 
Journal,  iii.  37  was  written  other  references  have  been  added  to  the 
card-catalogue  in  D.  under  "  Martha  and  Mary,  Story  of."  The  earliest 
location  of  this  story  yet  found  is  in  Mary  Hewitt's  Tales  in  Prose,1  of 
which  the  first  dated  edition  was  issued  in  1S41.  The  date  of  the  original 
edition  was  probably  1837,  for  the  stogy  was  transferred  to  the  pages 
of  The.  Friend  (Phila.),  1837,  p.  233  (dated  Fourth  Month,  1S37)  via 
Chambers's  Edinburgh  journal.  Whence  M.  Howitt  obtained  this  story,  or 
whether  indeed  it  is  her  own  composition,  is  not  known. 

Here  is  the  bibliography,  so  far  as  at  present  known  : — 

Mary  Howitt's  Tales  in  Prose,  c.  1837,  and  later  edd. 

Chambers's  Edinburgh  Journal. 

The  Friend  (Phila.),  1837.  p.  233. 

The  British  Friend,  1843,  p.  114. 

Wilson  Armistead's  Select  Miscellanies,  185 1,  vol.  iv. 

The  Friend  (Phila.),  1856.  p.  201. 

The  Friend  (Loud.),  1856,  p.  80. 

Mary  S.  Wood's  Social  Hours  with  Friends,  1869. 

Jane  M.  Richardson's  Apples  of  Gold,  1896. 

Joseph  J.  Green's  Souvenir  of  Addresses  to  the  Throne,  1901. 

Lydia  Cope  Wood's  For  a  Free  Conscience,  1905. 

The  Friend  (Phila.),  1907,  p.  164. 

The  Walter  Pixley  of  history  was  a  shoemaker  of  Uttoxeter,  Stafford- 
shire.   In  1G75,  he  married  Christian  Alsop,  of  Inktrey.    Their  children 
were  numerous  but  there  was  not  any  Martha  among  them.    In  1697 
Walter  Pixley  married  Dorothy  Twigg.    He  died  in  171 8  and  his  wife 
died  in  1746/7,  aged  eighty-eight  years. 

Walter  Pixley,  with  others,  signed  a  testimony  of  disownment  against 
"  a  certain  woman  whose  name  is  Margrett  Phillips,"  in  1689,  and  a 
similar  paper  against  "  Nathaniell  Cawn,  a  reputed  member  of  our 
Society,"  in  1710.  John  Pixley,  of  Uttoxeter  (presumably  one  of  Walter's 
family ;  Walter  had  a  son,  named  John),  was  disowned,  at  a  Monthly 
Meeting  held  at  Rudgcley  in  J 710,  for  "  debts  and  reproa.chfull  conduct." 
(D.  Crosfield  MSS.)    Walter  Pixley  does  not  appear  in  Besse's  Sufferings. 

1  In  this  book  appears  a  curious  little  woodcut,  representing  the  old 
beggar  woman  handing  over  the  baby  Mary  to  the  care  of  its  future  foster- 
mother,  Martha,  the  seven  year  old  daughter  of  Walter  Pixley,  living  near 
Stafford. 


Our  losses  are  often  made  judgments  by  our  guilt,  and  mercies  by 
our  repentance. 

Pens,  Reflections  and  Maxims,  ii.  151. 


275 


JSJamson,  of  $$m$$ton  an&  (poofe 


HE  pedigree,  given  as  a  footnote  to  page  77,  should  read  as 
follows  : — 


John  Harrison 

of  Brighthelmstone 


William  Harrison  ==Mary    .    .  . 

of  Brichthelm stone,  a  Quaker.         d.  3  Nov.  1694. 
bapt.  o  Jan.  1606. 
d.  9  Dec.  1685,  aged  80. 


-and  others. 


William  Harrison  —Marv 


of  Brighthelmstone,  shoemaker, 
d.  9  Nov.  1680,  admon.  Arch. 
Lewes 


d.  20  Jan.  1 730/1. 

She  lived  during  her  widowhood 
at  Preston,  near  Brighton. 

—  and  others. 


William  Harrison  =rFrusannah  Elson,1 

of  Poole,  b.  c.  1669,  d.  1739. 

b.  circa  1667,  3.  1733,  A  Minister, 

m.  27  Feb.  1693.  1 

See  page  77. 

For  this  pedigree,  the  original  Quaker  registers  at  Somerset  House  have 
been  drawn  upon,  in  addition  to  testamentary  records  and  marriage 
licences.  It  is  a  good  example  of  the  great  value,  in  fact  the  necessity  of 
such  evidences  in  fitting  together  the  early  generations  of  a  family  in  cases 
where  the  digested  Quaker  registers  are  defective,  or  inconclusive  owing  to 
lack  of  derail.  With  regard  to  Frusannah  Kelson,  it  is  with  somewhat  of  a 
pang  that  one  parts  from  a  picturesque  name  which  has  found  its  way 
into  print  on  several  occasions,  and  is  recorded  on  many  a  manuscript 
pedigree.  It  has  the  authority  of  the  original  registers — both  at  the 
marriage  of  the  lady  in  question,  and  also  on  one  occasion  when  her  name 
appear;,  as  a  witness.  In  the  marriage  licence,  however,  of  her  mother 
to  John  Gold,  the  name  is  Elson,  which  was  a  frequent  local  name  at  that 
period,  whereas  that  of  Nelson  was  unknown  in  Sussex.  My  theory  is  that 
the  final  n  of  Frusan  (the  name  was  undoubtedly  used  commonly  as  a 
dissyllable — as  Susan  for  Susannah)  as  carried  on  to  the  surname  in 
speech,  became  so  recorded  on  paper  by  a  clerk  who  was  unacquainted  with 
the  correct  form.  Perce  vai.  Lucas. 


1  Not  Nelson.  Her  mother,  Priscilla.  married,  secondly,  John  Gold, 
of  Brighthelmstone,  and  had  a  daughter-in-law  and  a  grand-daughter 
Barbara,  hence  Barbara  Gold  as  the  ''given  name"  of  another  of  her 
descendants. 

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"•£f;e  Mfr  of  $o$n  Janeon" 


J|  CURIOUS  pamphlet  is  on  loan  in  D.,  of  which  the  full  title  is 
ekV  Xhs  Life  of  John  Ianson,  of  Pollingion,  near  Snaith,  Yorkshire, 
once  an  Opulent  Farmer  in  that  Neighbourhood.  Hull  :  Printed  by 
Topping  and  Dawson,  Lowgate,  for  the  Benefit  of  John  Ianson  [i8io]. 
This  2.4  page  pamphlet,  the  property  of  Perceval  Lucas,  of  Rackham, 
Sussex,  an  ex-Friend,  contains  the  life-history  in  brief  of  an  unfortunate 
and  apparently  (by  his  own  telling)  a  much-wronged  man.  John  was  born 
at  Healev.  near  York,  in  174.1.     He  writ es  : — 

"  I  have  been  from  my  infancy  up  to  my  67th  year,  amongst  the 
Quakers  ;  I  was  then  excluded,  and  have  not  since  that  time,  either  by 
personal  application  or  petition,  been  able  to  learn  the  grounds  on  which 
I  was  used  in  so  unkind  a  manner  and  must  therefore  impute  it  to  my 
Poverty.  I  laid  three  years  and  eleven  weeks  in  a  Stable  upon  Straw, 
I  have  been  39  years  travelling,  and  cannot  meet  with  three  upright 
Quakers,  Fanners,  in  one  meeting,  to  hear  my  case,  except  one  at  Hitchin 
in  Herefordshire  [Hertfordshire],  Jonas  L  s  ;  and  T  r,  of  York." 

And  again  : — 

"  In  no  sect  have  I  received  the  two  extremes  of  good  and  ill  treatment, 
than  in  that  class  of  dissenters  denominated  Quakers,  and  in  which  society 
I  was  brought  up,  my  father1  professing  that  religion.  I  do  not  wish  to  be 
understood  as  condemning  that  highly  respectable  body,  as  I  believe  there 
are  none  that  can  rival  them  in  acts  of  charity." 

Lawsuits  and  disastrous  business  transactions  seem  to  have  brought 
low  our  Author,  who  had  to  tramp  many  miles  for  a  livelihood,  selling 
"  Cotton  Balls,  Laces,  and  Whitechapel  Needles." 

1  From  a  written  pedigree  accompanying  this  book  we  gather  that  his 
parents'  names  were  John  and  Hannah  Ianson,  and  the  names  of  his 
grandparents,  Samuel  and  Hannah.  John's  father  was  born  in  17 15,  and 
he  died  in  1754. 


Peace,  Not  War,  the  School  of  Heroism,  is  the  title  of  a  pamphlet  by 
Jenkin  Lloyd  Jones,  LL.D.,  published  by  the  Chicago  Peace  Society,  U.S. A. 
In  this  we  read  : — "  The  military  record  of  Robert  E.  Lee  as  commander- 
in-chief  of  the  army  of  the  Confederacy  pales  in  significance  and  power 
with  the  more  heroic  civic  record,  the  post-bellum  achievement  of  Robert 
E.  Lee  as  president  of  a  dismantled  university.  He  scored  his  highest 
triumph  when  he  said,  '  I  have  given  four  years  of  my  life  to  leading  the 
youths  of  Virginia  to  battle  and  to  death.  I  want  to  give  the  remaining 
years  of  my  life  to  teaching  the  youths  of  Virginia  how  to  live.'  " 


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"  (Uonconformtfg  un&er  t$t  Cfarenion  £o&e"r 

the  spring  of  1910,  Albert  Cassell  Dudley,  of  Baltimore,  Maryland, 
^    visited  Devonshire  House,  and  entered  the  subject  of  his  research 

as  "  The  Clarendon  Code.  The  extent  of  its  operation,  How  severely 
it  was  put  into  effect,  Why  was  Comprehension  a  failure  ?  "  The  result 
of  enquiries  here  and  elsewhere  was  published  in  The  American  Historical 
Rtvieiv,  of  October,  1912,  under  the  heading  of  "Nonconformity  under 
the  Clarendon  Code."  After  opening  paragraphs  shewing  the  attitude 
toward  Episcopacy  of  Presbyterians  on  one  hand  and  "  Fanatics  "  on  the 
other,  the  Author  writes  : — 

"  A  large  amount  of  material  has  been  opened  in  Devonshire  House, 
London,  which  throws  much  light  upon  this  period.  .  .  In  large 
volumes  called  '  The  Books  of  Sufferings,'  we  have  a  picture  of  the 
Friends  as  they  lived  and  suffered  under  the  Restoration.  Court 
trials,  fines,  imprisonments,  deportations,  conventicles,  those  present, 
raids  made  by  officers,  and  all  such  indispensable  information  is 
given  in  a  most  minute  way.  In  addition  to  these  there  is  a  large 
collection  of  Quaker  tracts  in  bound  volumes.  .  .  There  is  also  a 
great  mass  of  letters  and  unbound  manuscripts  at  Devonshire  House." 

To  this  paragraph  is  appended  a  long  note  relative  to  the  records 
in  D.  In  this  Mr.  Dudley  expresses  the  view  that  the  financial  strain  on 
dissent  because  of  fines  and  losses  could  not  have  been  so  great  as 
usually  supposed  and  illustrates  his  point  from  "  the  Stock  Book  of  the 
Quakers  at  Devonshire  House,  giving  their  receipts  and  disbursements  " 
as  evidence  of  "  how  well  furnished  this  sect  was.  There  was  no  time 
when  they  were  in  need  of  money.  They  even  conducted  foreign 
missions  in  the  heat  of  persecution  and  contributed  large  sums  to  local 
causes  which  apparently  did  not  need  them  "  ! 

Then  follows  a  consideration  of  the  social  standing  and  general 
character  of  the  Dissenters — a  "  brief  comparison  will  show  that  they 
were  much  inferior  to  the  Recusants  who  stubbornly  fought  the 
established  Church  under  Charles  I.,"  although  "  the  leaders  were 
frequently  people  of  prominence." 

Again,  "As  to  the  so-called  'rioting'  and  '  plotting,'  these  must  be 
thought  of  in  qualified  terms,  although  according  to  the  Conventicle 
Proclamation  of  l66r,  not  being  meetings  in  'parochial  church  or  chapel,' 
the  gatherings  of  '  Fanatics  '  were  therefore  unlawful  and  '  riotous.' 
Many  of  the  supposed  ■  riots  '  can  be  shewn  to  be  nothing  but  what 

'  That  is,  the  Corporation  Act,  1661  ;  the  Act  of  Uniformity,  1662  ; 
the  Conventicle  Act,  1664  ;  the  Five  Mile  Act,  1665.  "  The  State 
demanded  certais  visible  expressions  of  loyalty  which  the  Quakers  .  . 
would  not  give  upon  religious  grounds,  therefore  in  attempting  to  force 
loyalty,  persecution  followed.  .  .  The  disloyalty  of  which  the  Quakers 
were  accused  was  the  very  thing  of  which  they  were  innocent.  .  .  It 
was  not  a  question  of  heresy,  it  was  a  question  of  treason  "  (note  to  p.  69 
of  art.).    See  Extracts  Jrom  State  Papers  Relating  to  friends,  passim. 


273 


CONSCIENTIO  US  SHOE  MA  KING 


279 


we  should  call  cottage  prayer-meetings,  though,  doubtless,  individuals 
and  even  congregations  were  at  times  led  to  extreme  action,  especially  the 
Fifth  Monarchists." 

In  further  proof  of  the  sufferings  under  these  Acts  being  less  severe 
than  generally  estimated,  A.  C.  Dudley  draws  attention  to  statements  in 
Ellwood's  History  of  his  Life,  which  imply  that  Friends  in  prison  were 
allowed  special  privileges  and.  might  have  had  more  if  they  had  been 
willing  to  pay  for  them. 

The  conclusions  arrived  at  are  :  (1)  That  Lord  Clarendon  did  not 
institute  a  religious  persecution  against  Dissent  ;  Iris  Acts  were  designed 
to  suppress  sedition.  The  Fanatics  were  not  a  riotous,  plotting  people, 
but  were  quite  the  opposite.  But  they  were  thought  to  be  so,  and  for  this 
reason  the  acts  oi  the  Clarendon  Code  were  enforced  against  them  ;  and 
(2)  "  It  is  clear  from  the  Devonshire  House  records  that  the  amount  of 
suffering  even  among  the  Quakers  has  been  greatly  over-estimated." 


Zt)t  (pafuc  of  "  Zeam*wov?i " 


NE  must  learn  to  work  with  those  about  him.  A  recent  graduate 
of  Swarthmore  said  to  me  the  other  day  that  he  had  learned  since 
graduation  that  three-fourths  of  success  in  life  is  dependent  on 
team-work.  Man  cannot  live  by  himself  alone  or  for  himself  alone. 
Whether  he  will  or  not,  he  is  dependent  on  others.  .  .  .  You  can 
only  pay  your  debt  by  service  and  make  your  contribution  to  it  by 
working  with  others  and  for  others. 

Dr.  Joseph  Swain,  President  of  Swart  amove  College,  Pa.,  quoted  in 
Swarthmore  College  Bulletin,  x.  4,  6mo.,  191 3. 


3  mo.  1 701.  Testimony  of  Truth  to  be  kept  up  by  Shoemakers  whoe 
are  to  meet  apart  sometimes  to  cxamm  how  they  keep  it  up  in  their 
trade  with  respect  to  the  fashionable  &  superfluous  part  of  it,  and  if  any 
are  guilty  of  making  fashionable  shoes,  or  if  any  professing  Truth  are  nott 
Satiisfied  with  such  shoes  as  sute  the  plainness  of  our  profession,  but  to 
gratifie  a  hi;;h  and  nice  minde  will  follow  the  vain  unsettled  fashions  of 
the  world,  Its  rccomended  to  the  severall  provinces  to  take  care  that  such 
fault  may  be  amended  both  in  the  sd  Trades  men  and  such  as  buy  their 
wares  whoe  profess  Truth  whether  men  or  women  that  soe  the  Testimony 
thereof  may  be  Kept  up  in  that  as  well  as  other  tilings. 

Minute  of  the  National  Half-Yeaijs  Meeting  held  in  Dublin. 


Heard  that  a  Scotch  woman  friend  May  Drummond  of  the  family  of 
the  E.  of  Dru.-nmond.  was  convinced  about  three  years  ago  and  is  now  a 
Preacher,  aged  about  25. 

Diaries  of  John  Ktlsall,  under  date  8fh  of  4  mo.,  1735,  ms.  in  D. 


Jfcn*  Q$a£&m  of  & 


^/ANE  WATSON,  Mary  Rid g way's  companion  (see  pp.  120,  132,  154}, 


was  a  member  of  Edenderry  Monthl)'  Meeting  (of  which  Meeting 


M.  R.  was  at  one  time  also  a  member).  In  1772  she  was  given  a 
minute  to  accompany  M.  R.  on  a  religious  visit  to  Munster,  and  prior 
to  that,  in  1760,  she  had  a  minute,  when  about  to  accompany  M.  R.  on 
a  fMigious  visit  "to  some  parts  of  Great  Brit  tain."  In  1774  she  was 
liberated  to  accompany  "  our  well  esteemed  Friend  Esther  Tuke  (now 
on  a  religious  visit  to  Friends  in  the  Nation  of  Ireland)  to  England  and 
to  some  Meetings  there."  On  this  occasion  J.  W,  is  described  as  "  a 
Minister  in  good.  Unity  with  us,  her  Ministry  though  not  large  being  sound 
and  edifying."  The  certificate  continues  :  "  She  has  our  Concurrence 
and  her  mother's  Consent  to  her  said  intended  Journey." 

In  the  book  of  the  Occurrences  for  the  Progress  of  Truth1  it  is  recorded 
that  in  1783  Mary  Ridgway  and  Jane  Watson  visited  the  counties  of 
Wicklow  and  Wexford.  A  minute  of  Wicklow  M.M.,  29  vi.  1783,  is 
as  follows  : — 

"  Since  our  last  Men's  Meeting  our  Friends  Mary  Ridgway  and 
Jane  Watson  .  .  .  performed  a  Family  Visit  to  the  Families  of  Friends 
belonging  theirto  [Wicklow],  and  as  we  have  reason  to  believe  said  Visit 
Was  performed  in  the  Love  of  Truth,  and  much  shuitable  Council  and 
Admonition  haveing  been  Delivered  by  them  in  Several  Families,  It  is 
Strongly  Recommended  to  Friends  to  be  Careful  to  make  the  best  Use 
of  it.  and  where  anything  appeared  amiss  to  be  Careful  to  Endeavour  to 
have  it  Mended." 

In  the  minutes  of  the  Province  Meeting  at  Moate,  referred  to  in 
Richard  Shacklcton's  letter  (see  The  Journal,  x.  154)  occurs  the  follow- 
ing :  "  Our  Friends  Mary  Ridgway  and  Jane  Watson  have  paid  a  visit- 
to  this  meeting,  whose  labor  of  Love  amongst  us  hath  been  acceptable, 
and  we  hope,  to  edification."  (The  service  of  Edward  Hatton  and  Joseph 
Garratt  is  also  recorded.  They  were  friends  from  Cork,  then  on  a  religious 
Visit  to  Ulster  and  Leinster  provinces.    See  p.  154.) 

In  17S9  there  arc  certificates  for  M.  R.  and  J.  W.  from  their  Monthly 
and  Quarterly  Meetings,  and  the  Y.M.  of  Ministers  and  Elders,  liberating 
them  for  the  visit  to  America.  We  have  also  copies  of  the  returning 
certificates  from  Philadelphia,  New  England,  and  New  York.  These  say 
much  more  of  M.  R.  than  of  J.  W.  The  former  seems  to  have  been  a 
very  gifted  minister.  Both  Philadelphia  and  New  York  seem  to  have 
been  impressed  with  the  unity  and  harmony  in  which  the  two  Friends 
travelled  together. 

The  Edenderry  Register  records  the  death  of  a  Jane  Watson,  in 
1812,  aged  seventy- three,  but  I  am  not  sure  that  this  is  the  above  Friend. 

1  See  also  Tin:  Journal,  ii.  134. 


OBSERVATION  OF  TRUTH'S  PROGRESS  281 


There  were  two  Friends  named  Jane  Watson  also  living  in  Carlovv,  one  of 
whom  was  appointed  Overseer  there  in  1773,  but  there  is  nothing  to 
show  that  cither  of  them  removed  to  Edenderry. 

Edith  Webb. 

Central  Offices  of  Friends  in  Ireland, 
6,  Eustace  Street,  Dublin. 


<E  {p&ttiadat  Oftuvvaticn  of  'Ztwt^Q  (progress 

31  iii.  1731.  Some,  time  ago  it  was  much  in  my  mind  how  though 
we  have  large  meetings  in  many  places  among  people  and  they  seem 
affected  with  what  they  hear,  yet  I  find  little  or  no  convincement  follows, 
which  makes  me  think  the  manner  and  way  that  Truth  is  now 
published  to  the  People  is  not  as  formerly  it  was  when  many  were 
gathered  to  the  Church.  The  Government  and  better  sort  of.  people  are 
very  kind  and  civil  to  friends,  and  they  have  respect  and  interest  with 
them,  yea  the  very  Priests  in  divers  places  are  seemingly  at  least  loving 
to  Friends.  Now  I  greatly  fear  that  too  many  Friends  being  unwilling 
to  give  them  offence  (as  they  call  it)  are  too  easy  towards  them  in  respect 
to  religious  matters,  not  concerning  themselves  to  speak  much  to  them 
about  such  things,  so  pass  smoothly  on,  and  the  common  people,  know- 
ing the  Favour  that  is  shewed  us  by  their  superiors,  behave  themselves 
more  civilly.  But  I  do  not  see  that  this  adds  little  or  anything  to  the 
Increase,  and  Prosperity  of  Truth,  and  had  Friends  commission  (I  am 
not  for  any  to  go  without  commission)  to  testify  openly  against  the 
reigning  wicked  practises  in  the  great,  and  the  lifeless  superstitious 
ministry  of  the  Priests  (both  of  which  in  my  thought  are  as  visible  and 
flagrant  as  ever),  there  would  be  more  converted  to  God  in  a  little  Time ; 
for  it  is  in  vain  to  be  lopping  at  the  branches  when  the  Root  remains  strong 
and  spreading.  And  it  is  my  belief  God  will  raise  in  due  time  a  People  out 
of  Friends  or  others,  who  will  be  commissioned  to  strike  at  the  Root  and 
branch  of  Antichrist,  without  regard  to  the  Frowns  and  Favours  of  High 
or  Low  clergy  or  others,  and  then  and  not  till  then  I  greatly  fear  it  will 
be  that  we  shall  have  any  considerable  addition  to  the  Church.  I  have 
mourned  in  secret  that  it  has  not  yet  been  laid  as  a  work  and  concern 
upon  some  of  our  eminent  Friends  and  ministers,  and  do  wish  they 
may  not  put  the  thing  too  far  from  them,  but  consider  whether  there  may 
not  be  some  such  service  for  them  to  do,  being  the  present  concern 
and  labour  seerns  not  to  be  effectual. 

Diaries  of  John  KelsalL  vi.  248,  MS.  in  D.  (copy). 


My  wealth  consists  in  living  on  what  I  have. 

Elizabeth  Powell  Bosd,  Dean  Emeritus  of  Swarthmore  College,  Pa 


"  B)c(xads  front  fkt&h  {pauts  uMv>\§ 
to  fmnU,  1654  to  1672 " 


R OF.  G.  LYON  TURNER,  M.A.,  Editor  of  Original 
I  I  1  Records  of  Early  Nonco?iformily  under  Persecution 
and  Indulgence,  igii,  and  Treasurer  of  the 
^  Congregational  Historical  Society,  has  kindly 
prepared  the  following  paper  on  the  contents  of  the 
latest  set  of  Journal  Supplements,  Extracts  from  State 
Papers : — 1 

A  most  valuable  piece  of  work,  admirably  done. 
A  store  of  first-hand  material  for  the  historical  student  ; 
of  chief  value  no  doubt  to  the  historian  of  Quakerism, 
but  incidentally  and  collaterally  of  great  interest  to  the 
historian  of  other  types  of  Nonconformity  as  well.  As 
with  everything  handled  by  the  Editor,  it  is  clearly 
arranged  and  in  the  best  form  ;  and  as  with  everything 
which  issues  from  the  press  of  Headley  Brothers,  neat  and 
clean  and  tasteful  in  type  and  setting.  Covering  two 
very  different  periods  of  English  history,  these  State 
Papers  show  the  infant  Societ}'  of  Friends  in  the  same 
sad  condition  of  "  Sufferers  "  in  both,  yet  in  both  brave 
in  their  unconquerable  patience  and  fearless  in  their 
testimony  ;  and  State  officials  mainly  occupied  in  the 
attempt  to  restrain  and  suppress  them,  largely  because 
they  are  urged  to  it  by  the  officials  of  the  Church. 

The  two  periods  are  the  last  years  of  the  Common- 
wealth (1654-1G60),  and  the  first  years  of  the  Restored 
Monarchy  (1660-1672)  ;  the  first  including  the  whole 
of  Oliver's  Protectorate,  and  the  second  the  first  half  of 
the  reign  of  Charles.  But  another  fact  is  true  of  both 
these,  periods.    The  persecution  is  at  the  hands  of  sub- 

1  Extracts  from  State  Papers  Relating  to  Friends,  to  i6f2. 

Transcribed  by  Charlotte  Fell  Smith,  and  edited  by  Norman  Penney, 
FAX,;  F.R.If^t.S.,  wfith  Introduction  by  R.  A.  Roberts,  F.R.Hist.S., 
pn.  365  and  four  indexes,  12s.  ($3.50)  net,  in  brown  cloth,  gilt  top. 
Loudon  :  Headley  Brothers,  and  New  York  :  Friends'  Book  and  Tract 
Committee,  144  East  20th  Street. 

28  2 


"  EXTRA  CTS  FROM  STATE  PAPERS  "  283 


ordinat.es ;  any  sympathy  or  clemency  is  from  the  head  of 
the  State  in  both.  But  from  opposite  principles.  Oliver 
Cromwell  was  a  man  of  intense  religious  convictions 
who  could  respect  religious  conviction  in  others  even  when 
it  took  forms  very  different  from  his  own.  Charles  Stuart 
was  a  man  of  no  religious  conviction  at  all  ;  one  so 
absolutely  indifferent  to  ail  religion  and  morality  that, 
personally,  he  would  give  liberty  and  indulgence  to  all, 
so  long  as  they  left  him  liberty  and  gave  him  means  to 
indulge  in  the  luxuries  of  a  brilliant  court  and  of  a 
numerous  harem. 

Oliver's  strong  and  lofty  character  inclined  him.  to 
give  equal  liberty  to  all  who  had  lofty  spiritual  ideals,  and 
were  honestly  working  for  the  moral  and  religious  re- 
generation of  the  people;  while  Charles's  eas\<Tgood  nature 
was  naturally  expressed  in  his  Declaration  at  Breda, 
and  his  Declaration  of  Indulgence  in  1672,  so  that,  though 
he  was  compelled  to  give  prestige  and  preference  to  the 
re-established  Episcopal  Church,  he  was  quite  willing 
to  consider  the  tender  conscience  of  those  who  could  not 
in  all  things  conform  to  it. 

But  in  both  periods,  the  fundamental  principles  of 
the  Friends  made  it  inevitable  that  they  should  incur  the 
hostility  of  two  influential  classes  of  the  community,  the 
Justices  of  Peace  in  things  civil,  and  an  ordained  and 
salaried  ministry  in  things  religious.  So  firmly  were 
they  convinced  of  the  absolute  freedom  of  the  Spirit's 
working  in  both  worship  and  ministry  that  to  them  all 
salaried  ministers  were  mercenaries,  and  all  ordained 
ministers  were  priests  ;  and  in  those  early  days  1hey  did 
not  hesitate  publicly  to  denounce  them  as  hireling  priests, 
and  to  interrupt  their  worship  as  bondage  to  the  letter. 

So  implicit  and  persistent  too  was  their  obedience  to 
Christ's  command  M  Swear  not  at  ail  "  that  their  in- 
flexible refusal  to  fake  an  oath  in  any  court  of  justice 
made  the  humanest  of  Justices  appear  their  enemies, 
because  the  laws  of  the  realm  gave  the  Justices  no  option 
but  to  insist  upon  it. 

There  was  of  course  a  great  and  yital  difference 
between  the  attitude  towards  them  of  a  Puritan  ministry 
under  the  Protectorate  and  the.  Anglican  clergy  under  the 
Monarchy. 

Vo!.  x.— i*S. 


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Under  the  Protectorate,  in  the  first  instance  it  was  the 
Friends  who  attacked  the  ministers  and  publicly  dis- 
turbed their  services,  though  the  too  natural  consequence 
was  to  turn  many  of  the  ministers  into  open  and  often 
bitter  public  enemies.  But  under  the  Monarch}7  the 
clergy  needed  no  personal  provocation.  In  their  in- 
dignant championship  of  their  vested  interests  In  an 
episcopal  and  priestly  hierarchy,  in  an  ordered  public 
ritual  and  the  administration  of  mystic  sacraments,  they 
persistently  attacked  and  pursued  the  Friends.  First  in 
Uio  ecclesiastical  courts,  Churchwardens  and  clergy  alike 
"  presented  "  them  for  neglecting  public  worship,  for 
refusing  to  attend  it  in  their  own  parish  churches,  or  for 
disrespectful  conduct  when  present,  for  their  contempt  of 
the  Sacraments,  by  refusing  to  receive  the  Lord's  Supper 
themselves,  or  to  accept  baptism  for  their  children, 
and  "  denying  "  marriage  by  priests  in  steeple-houses 
and  burial  by  them  in  parochial  churchyards  ;  and 
when  the  ecclesiastical  courts  had  done  their  worst 
in  admonitions  and  fines  and  excommunication,  the 
Church  handed,  them  over  to  the  State  to  imprison  or 
transport  them  as  banned  and  praemunired  persons. 

But  perforce,  in  both  periods,  Justices  of  the  Peace 
could  not  but  appear  their  enemies  by  their  insistence  on 
the  oath  in  giving  evidence  in  any  court  of  law;  while, 
on  the  Restoration  of  the  Monarchy,  there  was  this  added 
trouble,  that  in  assuming  any  public  office,  or  if  brought 
under  suspicion  by  any  malicious  informer,  it  was  so 
easy  to  offer  them  the  Oath  of  Allegiance  and  Supremacy, 
and  to  accuse  them  of  disloyalty  when  the}7  refused  to 
take  it,  although  they  refused  not  because  it  demanded 
allegiance  and  obedience,  but  because  it  was  a  point 
of  conscience  with  them  not  to  take  an  oath  at  all. 

All  that  a  Justice  could  do  to  favour  them  was  to  fail 
to  press  the  oath  at  the  risk  of  being  accused,  of  disloyal 
leniency  himself  ;  while  this  legal  difficulty  made  if:  all 
too  easy  for  an  unsympathetic,  prejudiced,  or  bigoted 
magistrate  to  protract  their  imprisonment  indefinitely, 
remanding  the  prisoner  from  session  to  session  and 
from  year  to  year. 

From  one  or  other  of  these  causes  the  gaols  through- 
out this  period  had  many  Quakers  in  them. 


"  EXTRACTS  FROM  STATE  PAPERS  "  285 


These  State  Papers  give  several  lists  of  Quaker 
prisoners.  One.  of  over  120,  in  1658,  speaks  of  the 
state,  of  things  under  Oliver.  But  the  numbers  vastly 
increase  under  the  Monarch}7.  In  1663,  we  find  214 
Baptists  and  Quakers  of  London  in  Newgate  prison 
alone  ;  and  463  Quakers  are  reported  in  the  provincial 
gaols.  In  1666/7  several  are  reported  in  York  Castle  ; 
in  1670  we  have  a  list  of  over  210  in  Nottinghamshire 
alone,  and  as  late  as  May  8,  1672,  nearly  two  months 
after  the  issue  of  the  Declaration  of  Indulgence,  between 
500  and  600  are  named  as  still  in  prison,  nearly  all  of 
whom  are  Quakers. 

And  from  these  prisoners  of  hope,  in  man}7  of  the 
most  pathetic  and  significant  of  these  papers,  comes 
the  cry  of  Remonstrance,  of  Protest,  and  Appeal,  in  all 
but  one  notable  instance2  passing  over  all  subordinates, 
even  those  in  highest  places  and  of  greatest  influence,  and 
addressed  direct  to  the  supreme  head  of  the  State  ;  plead- 
ing simply  the  justice  of  their  cause,  and  the  piteousness 
of  their  fate. 

To  Oliver  comes  a  Remonstrance  from  the  prisoners 
of  Exeter,  and  a  Protest  from  Gilbert  Latey.  Appeals 
are  sent  to  him  from  Ilchester  and  Reading  Gaols  ;  and 
Petitions  from  those  at  large  for  their  brethren  in  prison, 
from  the  Friends  in  London  and  Westminster,  for  mercy 
for  poor  James  Nayler,  and  from  Quakers  in  the  provinces 
for  115  incarcerated  in  the  different  county  gaols. 

And  to  Charles  the  Second  come  appeals — dignified, 
fervent,  prophetic — from  Francis  Howgill  in  Appleby, 
from  John  North  in  Scrooby,  from  Henry  Jackson  in 
Warwick,  from  Ambrose  Rigge  in  Horsham,  from  Charles 
Bayly  in  the  Tower  of  London,  from  above  210  in 
Nottinghamshire  alone,  and  from  over  125  Long-time 
Prisoners  in  different  county  prisons. 

Nor,  in  most  cases,  are  these,  appeals  made  in  vain. 
The  response  is  generally  prompt — either  ordering 
directly  immediate  release,  or,  as  in  the  case  of  Oliver, 
the  closest  scrutiny  of  each  case,  with  a  ready  pardon 
in  every  instance  of  a  miscarriage  of  justice. 

In  the  case  of  Charles,  indeed,  his  pardons  and  in- 
dulgencies  are  always  outrunning  the  persecutions  of 

7  Penn  to  Arlington.,  see  pp.  279-2S6. 


286      "EXTRACTS  FROM  STATE  PAPERS 


Quakers  by  his  subjects  from  their  places  of  power  in 
Church  and  State.  In  these  pages  we  have  his  General 
Pardon  for  Quakers  in  1661,  a  special  application  of  the 
Act  of  Oblivion.  We  have  also  three  General  Pardons 
for  them  in  1672 — one  issued  May  8,  a  second  in  June, 
and  a  third  in  August. 

The  first  specified  "  all  those  persons  called  Quakers 
now  in  prison  for  any  offence  comitted  relatcing  only 
to  his  Matie  and  not  to  the  prejudice  of  any  other  person"; 
but  excluded  the  non-payment  of  tithes,  legacies,  debts 
of  fines  from  the  offences  to  which  this  pardon  could 
apply.  To  the  payment  of  the  first  and  last  of  these, 
however,  Quakers  had  conscientious  objection  ;  the 
"  tithes"  being  the  "hire"  of  state-endowed  priests, 
and  the  "  fines  "  having  been  imposed  in  most  cases 
in  ecclesiastical  courts  whose  authority  they  did  not 
recognise. 

The  second  made  it  clear  that  the  suspension  of  Penal 
Statutes  against  Nonconformists  (which  had  been 
published  in  the  Declaration  of  Indulgence  three  months 
before),  applied  to  Quakers  so  far  as  they  committed  the 
offences  of  "  not  comeing  to  Church  &  heareing  divine 
service  "  and  "  frequenting  seditious  conventicles  "  ;  and 
it  distinctly  named  the  offence  of  "refuseing  to  take  the 
Oath  of  Allegiance  and  Supremacy  " — which  so  directly 
flowed  from  their  conscientious  objection  to  take  any 
oath  at  all,  as  covered  by  his  Majesty's  gracious  pardon. 

But  the  third  was  broader  and  more  definite  than 
either,  and  in  so  ma iry  words  included  the  two  offences — 
excluded  [no  doubt  under  pressure  from  the  ecclesiastics 
on  the  Council  (the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury  and  the 
Bishop  of  London)]  from  the  pardon  of  May — addi3?g  to 
the  particulars  just  mentioned  "  all  prmunires  Judgemts 
Con vi cons,  Sentences  of  Excommunicacon  &  Trans- 
ports con  thereupon  and  of  all  ffynes  Amerciamts  paines 
penalties  and  forfeitures  thereby  incurrid,  with  Resti- 
tucon  of  Lands  &  Goods  cS:c." 

It  is  quite  noteworthy  that  the  reports  here  given 
of  the  activity  and  increase  of  the  Quakers,  as  well  as 
of  their  Conventicles  and  of  the  means  taken  to  repress 
them,  come  not  from  the  common  informer,  but  from  those 
in  high  places  ;  from  Mayors,  and  Justices,  from  Officers 


EXTRACTS  FROM  STATE  PAPERS  "  287 


and  Governors  of  County  Gaols  ;  whereas  about  other 
sectaries  these  base  spies  are  very  bus}*.3 

By  the  scare  of  the  abortive  Yorkshire  Rising  in 
1663/4 — just  as  previously  through  the  Vcnner  Insurrection 
though  to  a  less  extent- — suspicions  were  falsely  fastened 
on  many  Quakers  (as  well  as  on  other  Nonconformists), 
inherently  unlikely  as  it  was  that  the  followers  of  Fox 
would  take  to  plottings  and  military  measures  to  achieve 
their  ends  ;  so  that  we  have  here  reports  of  Quaker 
soldiers,  subtle  insinuations  as  to  the  superior  quality  of 
Quakers'  horses  ;  most  diligent  searches  made  for  Quaker 
literature  (as  dangerously  factious  and  seditious)  as  well  as 
printers  and  distributors  ;  and  amusing  alarms  aroused 
by  official  ignorance  of  the  simple  meaning  of  the 
"  Monthly  Meeting  "  and  the  innocent  object  of  the 
collections  made  at  Quaker  Meetings,  when  they  lit  on 
allusions  to  these  in  intercepted  letters. 

The  geographical  distribution  of  these  papers  is  worth 
indicating,  however  unreliable  as  an  index  to  the  local  dis- 
tribution of  Friends.  From  the  central  belt  of  England  and 
Wales  come  comparative!}'  few ;  one  each  from  Derby, 
Cambridge  and  Nottingham  ;  two  or  three  from  Suffolk, 
Berks  and  Oxford,  But  there  are  many  from  the 
North;  few  of  them  from  Northumberland  and  Durham; 
but  several  from  Cumberland  (chiefly  Carlisle),  from 
Westmorland  and  Yorkshire.  They  come  from  all.  the 
three  Ridings  of  Yorks.  Whitby  seems  their  centre  in  the 
North  Riding  ;  Hornsea,  Hull  and  Holly m  figure  in  the 
East  Riding  ;  and  in  the  West  Riding,  Thorner,  Leeds 
and  Skipton.  But  where  the  three  counties  meet — 
Yorks,  Westmorland  and  Lancashire — there  the  interest 
is  focussed  ;  and  no  series  of  papers  in  this  volume  is  of 
such  vital  value  as  those  that  centre  round  Swarthmoor 
and  Margaret  Fell — whether  concerning  her  or  issuing 
from  her  pen — vividly  telling  the  story  of  her  valiant 
championship  of  Fox,  and  their  right  of  meeting  ;  of 
her  imprisonment,  and  the  sequestration  of  her  estates  ; 
of  the  sordid  clamour  for  them  by  her  apostate  son  ; 
and  of  their  final  award  to  her  two  daughters. 

3  A  most  interesting  scries  is  preserved  reporting  the  Conetivticlcs 
in  the.  City  of  London  in  the  two  years  immediately  following  the  first 
Conventicle  Act  (1663-5). 


288     "  EXTRA  CPS  FROM  ST  A  TE  PAPERS  " 


From  London,  and  the  "  country  "  south  of  it, 
however,  the  papers  are  both  numerous  and  interesting. 
In  London  we  have  them  from  Giles  Calvert  in  the  Gate- 
house prison  ;  about  Dr.  Otto  Faber  close  to  Barnards 
Castle  ;  concerning  London  conventicles  in  1666-7  '>  an^ 
most  vivid  of  all,  the  papers  which  tell  of  the  war  on 
Conventicles  in  Southwark  and  Tower  Hamlets  in  1670 
and  1671  ;  specially  in  '70,  when  the  King  was  absent  on 
his  fateful  visit  to  Dover,  so  that  a  bigoted  Lord  Mayor  and 
an  equally  ardent  persecutor,  the  Governor  of  the  Tower, 
wcie  j'ree  to  woik  the  newly-passed  second  Conventicle 
Act  for  all  that  it  was  worth. 

In  Kent,  papers  of  fascinating  interest  tell  us  of 
Quakerism  in  Cranbrook,  Goudhurst,  Canterbury  and 
Dover.  For  Surre}r  we  have  a  single  paper  from  Sheere. 
Of  Sussex  we  learn  there  are  Quakers  in  ever}'  corner  of 
the  "  country  "  {i.e.,  county)  ;  we  have  the  Mary  Carver 
papers  from  between  Shoreham  and  Brighton,  we  have 
the  powerful  voice  of  Ambrose  Rigge  from  Rotherheld, 
and  the  tf  bitter  cry  "  from  Horsham  Gaol  which  issued 
in  the  release  of  the  Quakers  lying  there  in  1662/3. 

A  few  of  these  papers  concern  Hampshire,  Dorset, 
Wilts,  Devon  and  Cornwall.  We  learn  of  140  incarcerated 
in  Dorchester  ;  and  of  as  many  in  Salisbury  both  in 
1663  and  1670  ;  while  from  Devon  news  comes  of  the 
Quaker  strength  in  Plymouth,  Falmouth  and  Exeter. 

But  papers  of  the  utmost  value  are  the  many  which 
centre  in  Bristol.  In  the  Protectorate,  attention  is  drawn 
to  Quaker  manners ;  but  under  the  Monarchy,  the 
trouble,  begun  by  insisting  on  the  Oath  of  Allegiance,  is 
increased  and  multiplied  by  the  persecuting  violence  of 
bigoted  Anglicans.  The  Address  of  Charles  Bayh'  from 
Newgate  Gaol ;  the  plea  of  Mrs.  Curtis,  daughter  of  a  strong 
Anglican,  Alderman  Yeamans ;  the  lively  scenes  enacted 
over  the  bailing  out  of  three  Quaker  prisoners  (Speed, 
Taykfr  and  Jones)  between  two  namesakes  who  are  no 
relatives,  Sir  John  Knight,  Baronet,  the  High  Church 
Mayor,  and  John  Knight  the  Sugar  Boiler,  the  stalwart 
but  rather  violent  champion  of  the  Friends;  gave  them 
a  place  and  standing  in  the  City  which  made  persecution 
of  them  no  easy  task.  Evidently  the  noble  refusal 
mentioned  in  one  of  these  papers,  by  the  crew  of  a  Bristol 


EXTRACTS  FROM  STATE  PAPERS  "  289 


sliip,  to  ship  three  other  Quakers  to  Barbados  simp])' 
because  convicted  for  a  third  offence  under  the  Con- 
venticle Act,  bespeaks  a  strong  interest  in  the  city,  and 
great  sympathy  with  the  Quakers  on  the  part  of  their 
fellow  citizens;  giving  them  the  confidence  to  break  open 
their  Meeting-house  after  it  had  been  closed  and  nailed 
up  against  them,  and  boldly  to  march  to  and  from  their 
meetings  past  the  City  Council  House,  in  full  view  of  the 
magnates  of  the  city.4 

So  much  is  there  of  thrilling  interest  in  this  one 
volume  for  members  of  the  Society  of  Friends. 

But  there  is  not  a  little  of  interest  for  Nonconformists 
of  other  types. 

Those  lists  in  the  First  and  Second  Series  of  "  Justices 
of  Peace  " — and  of  Quakers  and  others  judged  fit  to  hold 
the  office — will  well  repay  the  closest  and  most  persistent 
study,  in  the  light  of  local  as  well  as  central  records. 
To  not  a  few,  it  is  rather  "  painful  "  reading  to  find 
amongst  "such  that  are  in  Commission  in  the  Count}'  of 
Northampton"  .  .  .  who  have  "  all  allong  given  ther 
power  unto  the  beast  and  have  fought  with  the  Lambe, 
and  to  this  day  thinke  they  doe  god  good  servise  in 
Imprissoning  of  hisservantes  "  ;  or  among  the  "  persecuting 
men  "  of  other  counties,  men  of  the  Presbyterian  and 
Congregational  denominations  who  are  mentioned  in 
Original  Records  of  Early  Nonconformity,  as  reported 
in  the  Episcopal  Returns  of  1669  as  holding  Conventicles 
in  their  houses  at  the  risk  of  fine  and  imprisonment, 
or  figuring  in  the  Indulgence  documents  of  1672  as  licensed 
either  to  teach  or  to  hold  services  in  their  houses.  But 
it  is  well  to  know  the  facts,  and  to  realise  how  easily  the 
spirit  of  persecution  may  creep  into  a  liberal-minded  soul 
when  in  the  place  of  influence  and  power.5 

To  anyone  conversant  with  only  the  outstanding 
features  of  the  romantic  career  of  Col.  Thomas  Blood — 
one  of  the  leaders  of  the  rebellion  in  Dublin  in  166 1  and 
the  attempt  to  seize  Dublin  Castle,  one  of  the  movers  in 

'i  These  papers,  read  in  the  light  of  the  City  records,  make  a  thrilling 
story  of  conflict  between  the  pride  of  office,  the  bigotry  of  a  State 
Church,  and  the  enthusiastic  courage  of  spirits  made  free  by  the  Spirit  of 
God. 

s  I  have  examined  these  lists  and  could  give  the  particulars  in 
several  instances. 


EXTRACTS  FROM  STATE  PAPERS'' 


the  abortive  rising  in  Yorkshire,  the  forcible  rescuer 
of  Mason  (who  had  taken  part  in  it  and  been  captured ) 
when  escorted  on  his  journey  from  the  Tower  of  London 
to  the  Castle  of  York,  the  daring  assailant  of  Duke  of 
Ormond  on  his  way  from  a  mayoral  banquet  to  his  house, 
and  above  all  the  man  who  nearly  succeeded  in  his  attempt 
to  take  the  Crown  Jewels  from  the  Tower — it  is  almost 
startling  to  find  him  mentioned  in  the  same  letter  which 
refers  to  Quakers  imprisoned,  in  the  Old  Bailey. 

But  so  it  is,  Blood  and  his  captured  associates 
are  still  incarcerated  in  the  Tower  of  London  ;  and 
Sir  John  Robinson,  Governor  of  the  Tower,  writing 
to  Joseph  Williamson,  tells  him  how  Lord  Arlington, 
when  dining  with  him,  gave  him  "  Warrants  for  the 
releasni*  of  old  Blood  &  Perrott,  and  for  the  [continued] 
confinem1  of  young  Blood."  And  this  rele  ase  was  only 
the  natural  sequel  to  the  pardon  which  the  King  had 
granted  Blood  senior  as  the  result  of  the  personal 
interview  accorded  him  with  the  Royal  brothers  Charles 
the  King  and  James  the  Duke  of  York.  But  more 
than  this,  under  date  of  May  23,  '72,  we  have  an  entire 
letter  from  Blood  himself  to  the  Earl  of  Arlington  begging 
the  release  of  others  besides  Quakers  who  are  still 
incarcerated  for  offences  committed  under  the  second 
Conventicle  Act.  -  - 

One  name,  moreover,  is  mentioned  in  these  papers 
— of  a  fame  more  widespread  than  any  I  have  mentioned — - 
and  in  a  connection  which  puts  one  important  event  of  his 
life  in  quite  a  new  light.  It  is  that  of  the  Immortal 
Dreamer,  John  Bunyan.  Under  the  disguise  of  the 
singular  mis-spelling  "  John  Bunion/'  it,  with  those  of 
John  Fenri  the  Bedford  hatter  and  deacon  of  Bunyan's 
Church,  and  of  John  Dunne  of  Bolnhurst,  stands  as  part 
of  a  lis!  for  Bedford  County,  which  (with  lists  from  thirty 
other  Counties),  is  printed  here  as  "a  true  List  of  the 
Names  of  such  Persons  com  only  called  Quakers  & 
others  which  are  by  vertue  of  an  Order  of  Council!  of  the 
8th  of  May  last  past  to  be  inserted  in  a  generall  Pardon." 
The  natural  inference  from  this  would  be  that  on  the 
8th  of  May  John  Bunyan  was  still  in  Bedford  County 
gaol.  True  Dr.  Brown  shows  that  the  gaoler  must 
have  given  his  Nonconformist  prisoners  considerable 


"EXTRACTS  FROM  STATE  PAPERS"  291 


freedom  to  go  hither  and  thither  on  parole  to  teach 
and  worship  with  their  Nonconformist  brethren.  The 
Church  books  cited  by  Dr.  Brown  show  that  in  January 
John  Bunyan  had  been  chosen  as  their  pastor  and  John 
Fenn  as  their  deacon  ;  and  though  the  oft-repeated 
legend  is  not  by  any  means  true  that  John  Bimyan's 
licence  under  Charles's  Indulgence  was  one  of  the  first 
to  be  taken  out,  application  had  been  made  for  licences, 
as  early  as  the  last  day  in  April  or  the  first  day  of  May. 
Bunyan* s  licences  were  issued  on  the  gth  of  May,  the  day 
after  the  Geneva  1  Pardon  was  declared,  for  .himself  and 
John  Fenn.6  He  and  his  friends  were  doubtless,  by  this 
time,  pretty  confident  of  his  release  and  licence  ;  but 
we  see  from  this  paper  that  his  name  did  not  appear 
in  the  General  Pardon  till  the  very  day  before  his 
licence  was  issued. 

Enough  has  been  said,  I  trust,  to  show  the  great 
interest  and  historical  value  of  the  contents  of  this  volume. 
The  more  carefully  it  is  searched  and  the  more  thoroughly 
it  is  used,  the  more  amply  will  its  publication  be  Justified. 

G.  Lyon  Turner. 

WJteatham  Hill, 
E.  Liss.,  Hants. 

6  The  fact  is  that  the  first  batch  of  licences,  over  seventy  in  number, 
were  issued  on  the  2nd  of  April,  and  their  entries  occupy  eight  pages  and 
a  half  of  Entry  Book  38A  ;  while  other  batches  were  issued  on  the  nth,  on 
the  13th,  on  the  15th,  16th,  17th,  18th,  19th,  20th,  22nd,  and  30th  of 
April,  and  on  the  1st  and  2nd  of  May  before  we  reach  the  first  of  the 
many  issued  on  the  8th  day  of  May,  And  we  do  not  come  upon  the 
licence-entries  for  "  John  Bunyan.  to  be  a  Congregational  Teacher  "  and 
for  "  his  friend  Josias  Roughead's  howse  in  ye  Towne  Bedford  "  till  the 
93rd  page  of  the  Entry  Book,  its  first  and  second  lines. 


3  mo.  1703.  Gaudy-Glitterring  or  shining  culloured  halfc  Silke  Stuffs 
(or  Stript  silke  handkerchiefs)  unbecoming  the  plainness  of  our  profession, 
friends  are  not  to  buy  sell  nor  wear    .    .  . 

3mo.  1703.  Friends  are  not  to  reach  after  every  prospect  of  Gain  with- 
out regard  to  what  hurt  or  incumbrance  it  may  bring  upon  the  minde. 

9  mo.  1705.  Gardens  friends  are  advised  to  make  plain  and  rather 
plant  or  sett  such  profitable  tilings  as  may  be  of  service  then  to  make 
fine  Knotts  set  or  make  needless  things  only  to  sattisfic  a  vain  curious 
minde. 

Minutes  of  the  National  Half-Years  Meeting  held  in  Dublin. 


5jVt£n&0  in  Current  Biteratuvt 


FOLDING  card,  Manner  of  Worship,  issued  by  Friends  of  Fritchley, 
Derby,  has  recently  been  translated  into  Scotch  Gaelic  for  distri- 
bution among  Highlanders.  Thomas  Davidson,  of  Fritchley, 
tells  me  it  can  be  read  by  Irish  speaking  people,  though  it  is  not  in  their 
dialect.  T.D.  would  be  glad  to  supply  a  few  copies  to  an)'onein  touch 
with  the  Highlanders. 

Araor:g  the  Little  Guides,  published  by  Mcthuen,  of  London  (6  J  by  4, 
23.  6d.  each)  is  one  devoted  to  the  county  of  Durham,  the  work  of 
Jonathan  Edward  Hodgkin,  of  Darlington,  son  of  Jonathan  Backhouse 
Hog%1chi  It  might  be  described  as  a  dictionary  guide,  the  places 
being  dealt  with  in  alphabetical  order.  There  are  293  pages  of  text, 
t  hirty-two  illustrat  ions,  and  seven  maps.  Edward  Hodgkin  states  that  he 
has,  "  during  the  past  three  years,  personally  visited  every  place  referred  to 
in  the  county,  many  of  them  repeatedly,  so  as  to  verify  facts  and  make 
the  book,  though  far  from  complete,  at  least  accurate  so  far  as  it  goes." 
The  book  will  avail  to  inform  its  readers  of  beauties,  perhaps  hitherto 
unheard  of,  in  a  count)'  often  supposed  to  be  full  of  naught  but  coal 
mines  and  grime.  It  is  to  be  regretted  that  the  author  has  given  the 
initials  only  of  liis  "  Christian"  names,  especially  as  they  are  the  same 
as  those  of  his  relative,  another  antiquary* 


Dr.  Charles  F.  A.  Moss,  late  a  missionary  in  Madagascar  under  the 
Friends'  Foreign  Mission  Association  (although  not  himself  a  Friend), 
Ins  written  a  life  of  Joseph  Pearse  (1837-1911)  of  the  London  Missionary 
Variety,  under  the  title  A  Pioneer  in  Madagascar.  (London:  Hcadlcy, 
7*  by  5>  PP-  261,  illustrations,  but  no  index,  33.  Gd.  net.) 


Joseph  Taylor,  of  our  Indian  Mission  (Hoshangabad,  CP.,  India), 
is  editing  a  monthly  paper  entitled  Miira  Mandli  Samachar  Patra  or 
Society  of  Friends  News  Sheet.  The  publication  was  commenced  last  year 
by  Roland  Priestman  and  it  first  appeared  somewhat  irregularly,  but  it  is 
now  to  be  issued  at  monthly  intervals.  A  hie  will  be  preserved  in  D. 
Its  eight  pages  contain  Mission  news,  notices  of  meetings,  appointments 
etc.,  and  articles  of  various  kinds.    The  language  is  Hindi. 


Tkfflnm  P.  Cooper,  of  York,  author  of  "  The  History  of  the  Castle 
Ot  York"  etc.,  has  an  article  on  "  The  Armorial  Bearings  of  Gilds  and 
Livery  Companies,"  running  through  several  issues  of  The  Antiquary, 
vol.  ix.  (London:  Stock;  New  York  :  Stechert,  6d.  per  part). 

The  address  given  by  Alexander  Gordon,  M.  A.,  at  Essex  Hall,  Strand, 
London,  on  14th  May  last,  has  been  published  under  the  title,  Heresy,  its 
A  went  Wrongs  and  Modern  Rights,  in  these  Kingdoms  (London: 
The  Lindsdy  Press,  5,  Essex  Street,  W.C.,  7V  by  5,  pp.  88,  one  shilling 
net).    Thi:i  j.s  an  informing  record  oi  the  gradual  removal  by  law  of  the 


292 


FRIENDS  IN  CURRENT  LITERATURE  293 


religious  disabilities  of  Anti-trinitarians,  or  as  now  termed,  Unitarians. 
There  is  a  short  reference  to  the  case  of  Jaraes  Nayler  (pp.  29,  68). 

A  little  collection  of  poems  written  by  Edith  Ellen  Trusted,  of  Lewes, 
has  been  issued  by  Headley  Brothers  at  6d.,  entitled  Sonnet  and  Song. 

Information  reaches  me  that  the  author  of  A  Living  Legacy  (Phila- 
delphia :  Winston,  8  by  5^,  pp.  43s,  $1.35  net,  postage  extra)  has  hidden 
her  identity  under  the  nom-da-phtmc-  of  Ruth  Underwood.  She  is  a 
Friend  and  has  lived  in  or  near  Philadelphia  for  nearly  half  a  century 
under  much  the  same  conditions  and  circumstances  as  described  in  her 
book.  Tin's  is  her  sole  literary  venture.  There  is  only  a  slight,  intro- 
duction of  Quaker  characters  and  Quaker  ways. 


Various  articles,  written  by  Hubert  W.  Peet  and  John  T.  Rose, 
which  appeared  in  the  "  Sunday  School  Chronicle,"  have  been  collected 
into  a  book  and  titled  The  Secular  Menace  of  Sunday.  An  Enquiry. 
(London  :  Sunday  School  Union,  7^  by  4;},  pp.  98,  fourpence  net.)  These 
articles  deal  with  the  Sunday  Newspaper,  with  Sunday  Sport,  Football, 
Amusements,  Travelling  and  Trading.  Hubert  W.  Peet  is  a  Friend,  and 
Editor  of  Sell's  World's  Press. 


Thomas  Nelson  &  Sons  have  recently  brought  out  a  valuable 
"  study  of  the  rural  labour  problem  "  by  B.  Seebohm  Rowntree  and 
May  Kendall,  entitled  How  the  Labourer  Lives  (London:  Nelson, 
?k  by  5,  pp.  342,  2S.  net).  There  is  much  in  this  book  to  interest  the 
ordinary  reader  as  well  as  the  expert,  and  the  bright  picture  on  its 
"  jacket    makes  the  book  very  attractive  looking. 


In  April  last,  at  the  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Young  Friends'  Association 
in  Dublin,  Joseph T.  Wigham,  M.D.,  gave  the  presidential  address.  This 
address  has  been  issued  as  an  eight-page  leaflet  under  the  heading  of 
What  are  we  doing  with  our  Inheritance?  It  is  an  earnest  appeal  to  search 
for  the  truth,  to  find  it  and  follow  it.  The  office  of  the  Young  Friends' 
Association  is  6,  Eustace  Street,  Dublin. 


About  the  middle  of  last  year  seven  prizes  were  offered  for  essays  on 
"  The  Beginnings  of  Quakerism"  by  W.  C.  Braiihwaite.  The  first  prize 
fell  to  Edith  J.  Wilson,  nee  Brayshaw,  wife  of  Alexander  C.  Wilson,  of 
Birkenhead.  Her  essay  is  entitled  The  Modern  Outlook  of  Quakerism. 
It  appeared  first  in  the  "  Friends'  Quarterly  Examiner,"  and  can  now 
be  obtained  in  pamphlet  form,  from  West,  Newman  &:  Co.,  Hatton 
Garden,  London,  E.C.,  price  3d.;  also  from  Headley  Brothers.  It  is 
worthy  of  attentive  perusal. 

A  copy  of  Charles  F.  Holder's  new  book,  The  Quakers  in  Great  Britain 
and  America,  is  to  hand,  but  I  have  not  had  time  to  do  more  than  glance 
at  the  illustrations.  I  fear  if  more  care  has  not  been  taken  with  the  text 
of  this  volume  than  has  been  extended  to  the  illustrations,  there  will  not 


294    FRIENDS  IN  CURRENT  LITERATURE 


be  much  to  praise.  Facing  page  141  is  a  portrait  called  "  Louis  IV."  ; 
the  portrait  of  Admiral  Perm  is  called  "  William  Perm  as  a  young  man" 
(pi;  169)  ;  Swarthmoor  Hall  is  described  as  "  where  Christopher  Holder  was 
buried  "  (p.  237)  ;  portraits  of  Isaac  and  Joseph  Bevan  Braithwaite 
are  transposed  (p.  258)  ;  views  of  Tcwkesburg  and  Chilienham  Meeting- 
houses appear  (pp.  44,  251),  and  man)'  of  the  references  in  the  List  of 
Illustrations  are  wrong.  (Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  New  York  and  London  ; 
The  Neuner  Company,  gl  by  61,  pp.  669,  62  illustrations,  $6.00  net, 
postpaid,  $6.25. )r 

T.  Fisher  Unwiri,  of  London  and  Leipsig,  has  published  Lord  Lislcr, 
II is  Life  and  Work,  written  by  G.  T.  Wrench,  M.D.  (9  by  6,  pp.  384, 

with  niitttrattons,  13s.  net).  There  are  a  few  references  to  Joseph 
Lister's  Quaker  ancestry  and  boyhood. 


Some  Intimations  of  Immortality  from  the  Physical  and  Psychical 
Nature  of  Man,  by  the  Rt.  Hon.  Sir  Edward  Fry,  G.C.B.  (London  : 
Williams  &  Norgate,  8|  by  5f,  pp.  35,  is.  net). 

Norman  Penney. 

1  As  the  Author  makes  a  kind  acknowledgment  of  "  many 
courtesies "  received  from  me,  perhaps  I  ought  to  state  that  if  such 
there  were,  they  were  not  in  connection  with  the  text  of  his  book  in 
either  MS.  or  printed  proof . 


HE  Editor  hopes  to  include  in  an  early  number  of  vol.  xi.  a  short 
Jjjf    biography  of  Deborah  Darby  (1754-1810),  of  Coalbrookdale,  who 
has  been  described  as  "  probably  the  ablest  woman  preacher  the 
Society  has  ever  produced."    He  would  welcome  any  information  respect- 
ing this  Friend  Which  readers  of  The  Journal  or  others  may  incline  to 
send  him,  addressed  to  Devonshire  House,  Bishopsgate,  London,  E.C. 
Other  articles  likely  to  appear  in  vol.  xi.  include  : 
"  Personal  Recollections  of  some  of  the  American  Friends  who 
travelled  in  England  on  religious  service  from  1835  to  1852,"  by  the  late 
Margaret  Evans. 

"  Women's  Meetings  in  the  Early  Days  of  the  Society/'  by  Dr.  R. 
Kingston  Fox. 

"  George  Swan,  of  Glasgow,  and  Notes  on  old  Meeting  Houses  in  that 
City,"  by  William  F.  Milkr. 

"  Nathaniel  Wilmer  and  his  Bible,  1GS6,"  by  Joseph  J.  Green. 

."  Correspondence  of  Benjamin  Flirty  with  John  Locke  and  Algernon 
Sidney,"  and  "  The  Library  of  Benjamin  Furly,"  by  Charles  R.  Simpson. 

A  reprint,  in  The  Journal,  is  under  consideration,  of  a  pamphlet 
last  reprinted  in  18.50,  entitled  "  Some  Account  of  a  Remarkable  Visit 
Paid  to  the  Metropolis  in  the  year  1753,  by  Ann  Mercy  Bell,  of  York." 

The  Editor  would  be  very  glad  to  hear  of  unpublished  diaries  and 
other  MSS.,  illustrative  of  various  periods  of  Quaker  history,  which  might 
be  preserved  in  print. 


;§ur£fkt  (Bpracfe  from  t$t  ©t'arg  of 

N  pp.  79  to  92  are  printed  some  entries  taken  from 
Abiah  Darby's  Journal.  Here  are  two  other 
extracts  of  interest  : — 


176 


10  mo.  11    Reading.    Lodged    at    Widow  Pickering's 
who  lives  with  her  maid  who  is  public 
The  young  woman  the  Friend  servant  before 
mentioned  sat  beside  us  in  the  gallery  and  her 
mistress  sat  at  the  bottom  of  the  meeting. 

1766  After  much  conflict  was  made  willing  to  go 
9  mo.  11  to  Shrewsbury  got  out  at  the  top  of  the 
main  street  and  my  concern  was  to  proclaim 
repentance  through  the  streets.  I  stood  at 
10  places ;  the  people  seemed  amazed  but 
behaved  well,  and  many  were  affected.  We 
were  about  3  hours  in  the  streets  being 
the  race  time.  How  wonderful  the  loving 
kindness  of  the  Lord  who  had  helped  me 
to  perform  what  I  believed  to  be  my  duly 
which  no  worldly  consideration  would  have 
prevailed  on  me  to  have  done,  no,  nothing 
short  of  the  dread  of  eternal  displeasure. 


3'o0£p$  d&avxatt  of  Corft 

Mary  J.  Taylor,  of  Hove,  Sussex,  has  kindly  supplied  the  following 
particulars  : — 

"  Joseph  Garratt  [unidentified  on  p.  154]  was  my  great-grandfather, 
*  a  Minister  of  our  Society  in  good  esteem.'  He  lived  at  Cork  and  was  the 
youngest  son  of  good  John  Garratt,  John  Wesley's  friend  (see  The 
Journal,  ii.  123,  vii.  47).  Joseph  Garratt  was  born  in  1748  and  died  in 
1793.  He  was  twice  married:  (1)  to  Miss  Dobbs,  of  Castle  Dobbs, 
Antrim  ;  (2)  to  Mary,  daughter  of  William  and  Deborah  (Kin)  Pike  of 
Beechgrove,  Dungannon.  There  were  no  clnldren  by  the  first  marriage; 
by  the  second  there  were  nine. 

"The  ancestor  the  farthest  bock  we  can  trace  is  Richard  Garratt, 
of  Roydon,  Essex,  born  c.  1597.  The  Dorlanos  of  Canada  arc  also 
descended  from  hhn  on  their  mother's  side.!' 

29  s 


(It o fee  anb  Qucme 


KEY  TO  ABBREVIATIONS. 

D.  =  The  Reference  Library  of  London  Y.M..  at  Devonshire  House, 

Bishopsgate,  London,  E.C. 
Carab.  Jnl.--=The  Journal  of  George  Fox,  published  by  the  Cambridge 

University  Press,  1911. 
D.N.B.  =  The  Dictionary  of  National  Biography. 

F.P.T.—"  The  First  Publishers  of  Truth,"  published  by  the  Friends 

Historical  Society,  1907. 
H*S.P.==The  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania,  located  at  1300  Locust 

.Street,  Philadelphia,  U.S.A. 
M.M.=  Monthly  Meeting. 

P.M.  —  Preparative  Meeting,  except  in  art.  on  pp.  15/ff. 
Q.M.— Quarterly  Meeting. 
YM.=  Yearly  Meeting. 


Sesis. — The  following  quotation 
occurs  on  p.  80  of  Margaret  Fox  of 
Swarthmoor  Hall,  by  Helen  G. 
Crosfield  : — "  The  money  goes  so 
much  out  of  the  Country,  to 
soldiers  pay  and  sesis  [?]  that  there 
is  very  little  left  in  the  country." 
[Letter  from  Bridget  Fell  to  her 
mother,  1660/61.] 

John  Dymond  Crosfield,  of 
Marlborough,  writes,  '■■*  Is  not  this 
word  '  sesis  '  the  same  that  is  still 
used  in  Ireland,  the  '  County 
Cess,'  meaning  assessments,  plural 
Cesses  ?  " 

William  HolSem,  of  Lewes, 
Early  Sussex  Quaker.1 — The 
following  bequests  made  in  the  will 
of  the  above,  dated  2  January, 
16G1 .72,  proved  Arch.  Lewes,  may  be 
of  value  in  placing  and  dating  the 
imprisonments  of  the  Friends 
mentioned: — To  Ambrose  Rigg, 
5,1.  for  himself  and  other  prisoners 
at  Horsham ;  to  Joseph  Face, 
prisoner  at  Ipswich,  3I.  ;  to  William 
Bailey,  lately  a  prisoner  at  Newgate 


5I.  Hoibem  also  bequeathed  30I. 
to  George  Fox,  Samuel  Fisher, 
Edward  Burwash  [?  Burrough], 
Francis  Howgill,  William  Bay  ley 
and  Charles  Baile}-  "  to  be  disposed 
of  b}'  them  to  such  prisoners  and 
others  [sic]  poor  friends  in  and 
aboiit  London  as  they  shall  think 
fit."  The  testator  left  an  only 
daughter,  who  married  out  of  the 
Society. — Perceval  Lucas. 

1  The  Friends'  Registers  of 
Sussex  state  that  William  and 
Elizabeth  Holben  had  a  son, 
William,  b.  1655,  and  a  daughter, 
Ann,  b.  1657.  William,  Senr., 
was  buried  in  his  own  garden,  at 
Willington,  10  x.  1662,  and  the 
entry  adds,  "  His  son  buried 
15  mo's  before." 

Besse  states,  under  1656,  "  As 
they  were  haling  Richard  Pratt 
away  to  Bridewell  [Lewosj,  the 
People  were  very  abusive,  and 
pushed  him,  so  that  he  was  likely 
to  fail,  to  prevent  which,  William 
Bobbin  took  hold  of  him  ;  this 
was  called  an  Attempt  to  rescue  the 
Prisoner  ;  for  which  Hobbin  was 
fined  5I.  and  sent  to  Prison  for 
refusing  to  pay  it  "  (Suff.  i.  709). 


2)0 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES 


"  Railways." — The  Diary  of 
Abiah  Darby  in  the  last  number  of 
The  Journal,  gives  (p.  83)  an 
instance  of  this  word  considerably 
earlier  than  any  in  the  Oxford 
English  Dictionary.  Hoiv  much 
earlier  depends  on  the  question 
what  new-style  date  corresponds 
to  "  1  mo.  31st,  1756."  Is  it 
certain  that  a  lady  of  forty  would 
have  adopted  the  new  method  of 
reckoning  the  commencement  of 
the  year  ?- 

I  may  add  that  Sir  James 
Murray  would  be  happy  to  be 
referred  to  still  earlier  uses  of  the 
word,  for  the  Supplement  to  the 
Oxford  English  Dictionary. — R.J. 
Whitwell,  Oxford. 


A  Curious  Coincidence. — In 
this  number  of  The  Journal  is 
given,  as  a  "  fill-up,"  a  note  of  the 
baptism  of  John  Pain  in  1738 
(p.  187),  handed  in  to  the  office 
by  a  Friend  engaged  in  the 
North  in  genealogical  work.  On 
p.  131  there  is  a  note  respecting 
Mary  Leaver.  On  the  receipt 
of  the  note  ye  John  Pain,  the 
Editor  wrote  to  Richard  Payne, 
of  New-hill  Hall,  near  Waih,  York- 
shire, and  his  reply  reveals  the 
fact  that  John  Payn[e]  and  Mary 
Leaver  were  brother  and  sister  ! 
R.  Payne  also  states  that  Mary 
Leaver  had  issue  Ann,  Mary,  and 
Dorothy,  "  all  believed  to  have 
died  unmarried,"  which  corrobor- 
ates and  expands  the  Editorial 
note  on  p.  131,  taken  from  the 
Testimony  to  M.  Leaver. 

2  Adopted  formally  by  Friends 
in  Y.M.  of  1752.  See  Sir  Harris 
Nicolas,  Chronology  of  History 
(ed.  2,  1S3S),  180.  iSr.  It  may  be 
worth  noting  that  this,  and 
subsequent,  editions  are  more- 
useful  than  the  first  (1833). 


Joseph  Taylor  (x.  119,  126). — 
In  the  list  of  Friends  visiting  Ire- 
land, attached  to  Rutty 's  History, 
j  occurs  the  following,  under  date 
of  1728  : — "  Joseph  Taylor,  of 
Raby  in  the  County  of  Durham, 
on  his  return  from  America." 


A  Quaker  Solicitor  General. 
— Jonathan  Pirn,  K.C.,  recently 
appointed  Solicitor  General  for 
Ireland,  is  a  member  of  the  Societ}' 
of  Friends  and  the  first  of  that 
body  to  fill  the  position  of  a  law 
officer  to  the  crown  in  Ireland. 
He  is  a  son  of  the  late  Thomas 
Pirn  and  grandson  of  Jonathan 
Pirn  who  represented  Dublin  in 
Parliament  in  the  sixties. 

He  was  educated  at  Oliver's 
Mount  School,  Scarborough,  and 
afterwards  at  Trinity  College, 
Dublin  ;  was  called  to  the  bar  in 
1886,  and  took  silk  in  1909.  He 
was  at  one  time  Hon.  Secretary 
to  the  Statistical  and  Social 
Enquiry  Society  of  Ireland  and 
took  part  in  its  proceedings. 

The  Pirn  family  came  to  Ireland 
in  1655  and  settled  in  the  midland 
counties. 


John  H  u  ll.  — George  Fox's 
travelling  companion  in  America 
was  John  Hull  ;  the  MS.  printed 
on  p.  118  gives  Hall,  but  this 
should  have  been  Hull. 


Elson  or  Nelson  (x.  276). — A 
confirmation  of  the  suggestion  of 
Perceval  Lucas  is  the  case  of  John 
Bkbn  of  the  Peel  in  Loudon  (d. 
1701)  who  is  frequently  named 
John  Kchon  in  the  Camb.  Jul. 
(see  index  s.v.  Elson.) 


Abbott,  Mary,  252. 
Abbott,  William,  258. 
Abel,  Abraham,  173,  175. 
Aberdeen,  46,  104,  167,  187. 
Abergavenny j  82,  99. 
Abraham,  john,  159. 
Accomack,  25,  30!" 
Ackworth,  57,  112. 
Acton,  106. 
Acton,  i2i. 

Adamsbn,  James,' 15^!' 
Aibrighton,  83. 
Alcester,  86n. 

Aldam,  Ann,  aft.  Payne,  55a. 
Aldersoit,  .Alice,  119,  127,'  221, 

245,  260,  261. 
Alderson,  John,  261. 
Alderson,  Ralph,  127. 
Aldis,  David,  21  r  ill. 
Aldridge,  Moses,  242. 
Alexander,  Isaac,  168. 
Alfreton,  191. 
Alkbarousrh,  133. 
Allen,  Elizabeth,  178. 
Allen,  John,  43. 
Allen,  John,  160. 
Allen,. Richard,  248. 
Allen,  William,  166. 
Allen,  William,  9,  69,  191. 
Allendale,  130. 
"AlniMck,  85,  196. 
A! sop,  Christian,  aft.  Pixley, 

Ainborn  see  Ambrose. 
Ambrose,    Alice,    118,  121, 

159,  n. 
American  Friend,  10G. 
amusements,  49. 
Anderson  see  Alderson. 
Anderson,  Anne,  16S. 
Anderson,  Thomas,  238. 
anecdotes,  13,  33,  69,  77,  97, 

103,  187,  266,  274,  275. 
Annamessex,  25. 
Annual  Monitor,  109. 
An  sloe,  Jane,  1G1. 

'  Appleby'  18,  '285, 
Appietorij  John,   ttg,  126, 

apprentices,  152,  197. 

Arcn,  Wiiiiam,  43. 

Ardferl.  225. 
Areikin,  Thomas,  238. 
Armistead,  William,  tiB,  124. 
Armour,  Marry,  ri. 
Armstrong,     William,  119. 

125,  i®6,  212. 
art,  48. 

Art  is,  Mary,  257. 

Art  is,  Sarah,  245,  247. 

Ashbtidge,    'Elizabeth,  95, 

258,  271. 
Ashton,  John,  223,  225,  227- 

23ri  233,  239,  240. 


I  Atkinson,  Aaron,  11S,  122, 
I       123,  162. 

j  Atkinson,  Agues,  aft.  Baek- 
j       house,  127. 

Atkinson,  Ann,  164. 

Atkinson,  Henry,  169,  216, 
226. 

Atkinson,  James,  160. 
Atkinson,  fohn,  14. 
Atkinson,  Robert,  i65. 
j    Atkinson,  Sybil,  236. 
Atkinson,  Thomas,  159. 
Auckland,  81,  112. 
Audland,  Anne,  93. 
Audland,  John,  121. 
Austin,  Anne,  117. 
Axholme,  Isle  of,  29. 
Ayr,  115. 

Ayrey  (Vayera),  Agnes,  18,  19. 
Avrton,  122. 


Bache  see  Bates. 
Backhouse,     Agnes,  form. 

Atkinson,  127. 
Backhouse,  Edward,  25. 
Backhouse,  James,  127. 
Backhouse,     Jennet,  form. 

Godsalve,  127. 
Backhouse,  Jonathan.  112. 
Backhouse,    William,  119, 

127,  226,  248. 
Bacon,  Christopher,  15S. 
Badger,  Daniel,  231. 
Baildon,  Edward,  28,  29. 
Baildon,  Magdalen,  2S,  29. 
Baily,  J.  L.,  R.  Vaux,  190. 
Baintonpf  Lincolnshire,  135. 
Baird,  John,  161. 
Baker,  Elizabeth,  232,  233. 
Baker,  T-  Gilbert,  30. 
Baker,  P.  J.,  Olympiads,  39. 
Baker,  Samuel,  121. 
Baker,  Sarah,  form.  Payton 

and  Clarke,  121,  166,  168, 

169. 

Baker,  Thomas,  224. 
Baker,  W.  K.,  Acton,  106. 
Bala,  27011. 
Baldwin  see  Baildon. 
Bal 


William,  ill 

X 132, 256. 


Bal  li  tore,  153,  226. 
Ballymiry  (Brillymurry),  227, 
237. 

Baltimore,  Lord,  143. 

Baltimore  (Ireland),  166,  173, 
175,  17O,  214,  219,  220, 
224-227,  236,  250,  251. 

Baltimore  (Md.),   107,  117, 

Balwhidder,  Rev.  M.,  Annals, 
ix6i 

Banbury,  36,  41..  129. 
Baiidon,    tST-ySD  passim, 
212-262  passim. 


Baaduff.  15S. 

Bangs,  Benjamin,  160. 

banishment,  128. 

Banks,  John,  158,  160,  162. 

Bannister,  Mary,  11S,  12  f. 

Bantry,  170,  173,  175,  250. 

baptism,  27,  28,  134,  135, 

156,  187,  243. 
Baptists,  4,  92,  123,  2S5. 
Barbados,  89,  118,  121,  122, 

125,  162, 168,173,  203,  2S9. 
Barber,  Joshua,  172. 
Barclay,  Ann,  246,  247. 
Barclay,  Colonel  David,  35, 

187. 

Barclay,  David,  190. 

Barclay,  Robert,  35,  106. 

Barclay,  Robert,  106. 

Barcroft,  Elizabeth,  219, 
229,  237. 

Barcroft,  John,  165-167, 
169-171,  173,  179,  214,215, 
219,  222. 

Bariborough,  197. 

Barlow,  Eliza,  form.  Nichol- 
son, 7. 

Barlow,  John,  7,  10. 

Barlow,  Mary,  163. 

Barnard  of  Upperthorpe, 
79  ill. 

Barnard,      Deborah,  aft. 

Darby,  79  ill,  132. 
Barnard,  E.  K.,  Isaac  Briggs, 

107. 

Barnard,  Frances,  aft.  Dick- 
inson, 26,  n. 

Barnard,  Hannah,  180. 

Barnard,  John,  155. 

Barnard,  John  and  Hannah, 
132. 

Barnard,  Rachel,  afi.  Fowler. 
56n. 

Barnard,  Richard,  135,  136. 
Barnard,  Thomas,  2611! 
Barnes,  Jonathan,  224,  227- 

231,  239,  240,  247. 
Barnsley,  55,  n. 
Barron,  Jonathan.  167. 
Barrow,  Mabel,  167. 
Barrow,    Mary  (Margaret}, 

afi.  Minshall  and  Fawcet, 

1C.7,  173,  215. 
Barrow,   Robert,   riS,  122, 

161. 

Barrow,  Sarah,  215. 
Barry,  Martin,  S,  49. 
Barton  see  Burton.  - 
Barwick,  Grace,  04. 
Basketville,  Thomas,  209  ill. 
BatcheJbr,  Sarah,  245. 
Bateman,  Miles,  iS,  19. 
Bates  (Bache;,  Humphrey, 
140. 

Bates,  Jam",  168,  216. 
Bath,  17,  104. 
Bathurst,  Elizabeth,  94. 
Batt,  jasper,  147. 
Bayiey,  E.  and  A.,  52,  n. 


29l 


INDEX. 


Bayliss,  Ann,  aft.  Darby, 
79  iU. 

Bayly,  Charles,  28s,  288. 
Bayly,  William,  11 3. 
Be  lie,  Elizabeth,  aft.  Penrose, 
238. 

BeaTe,  Margaret,  38. 
Bea'e,  Mary,  aft.  Harris,  248. 
Beale,  Thomas,  23S,  24S. 
Beautoy,  Mark,  59. 
Beaver  Harbor,  41,  272. 
I3eck,  Ann.  23.  29. 
Beck,  Elizabeth,  afi.  Rawlin- 

son,  126,  167. 
Beck,  Mary  E.,  95. 
Beck,  William,  41. 
Beck,  William  and  Dorothy, 

120. 

Bedfordshire.  215. 

Beeby,  Jane,  245. 
Beeby,  Nathan,  243. 
Bed  and,  Humphry,  159. 
Beesley,  Mary,  form.   , 

aft.  Kidd.  228. 
Beesley,  Thomas,  86,  n. 
Be",  Ann  Mercy,  139. 
Be'!,  Daniel,  177. 
Bell,  Dayid,  261. 
Bell,  Deborah,  217,  220,  221. 
Beil,  Hannah,  245. 
Bed.  John,  2a  1. 
Bet*;  Robert,  '7. 
Bell,  Robert,  50,  n. 
Bellows,  W.,  German  Diclion- 
„  «ry,  35- 
Belton,  135. 
Bc-iungton,  Joan,  133. 
Benington,  Paul,  133. 
Bennet  of  Wilts,  203-211,  ill. 
Bennc-t,  Governor,  26. 
Bennet,  Thomas,  89,  203-211. 
Bennett,  George,  51,  n. 
Benson,  Maria,  51. 
Bentham.  244. 
Berkshire,  S9,  121,  131,  210, 

287. 

Berwick,  S-.  196. 

Bethlem    Royal  Hospital, 

Bettris,  Jane,  93. 
Beets  of  America,  191. 
Bevan,  Mary,  269. 
Sevan,  William,  269. 
Bevington,    Hannah,  form. 

Freeth,  154,  n. 
Bevington,    John,  250. 
Bevington,  Timothy,  S6,  n, 

I54n. 
Bewley  family,  127. 
Bowiey,   George,   165.  214, 

2TG.    222.  231,  236,  237, 

240,  241. 
Bewley,   Mnngo,   119,  127, 
Z  -T4>  219,  226,  231,  234. 
Biddle,  Hester,  159. 
BHliugsley,  John,  20. 
Bingley,  William,  159,  160. 
Binn-5,  H.  Bryan,  39,  40. 
Binns,  Jonas,  206. 
Binvoa  (Brightwen)  family, 

16. 

Buiyon  (Brightwenl,  George, 

Bird-sail,  William,  136. 
Birmingham  (Pa.),  125. 
Birr,  223-225,  227. 

V  >1.  x. — 129. 


Birstwhistle,  Edward,  r6x. 
Biscania,  122. 
Bishop  Auckland,  Sr,  112. 
Bispham,  John,  159,  764. 
Bla. kb.irrow,  Sarah,  93. 
Blakey,  Alfred,  5,  6,  49. 
Blaugddne,  Barbara,  41. 
Blood,  Thomas,  2S9,  29O. 
Blyth  (Notts),  63. 
Boace,  Gerskon,    162,  164, 
1 65. 

Boehm,  Anthony  Wm.,  123. 
Bohmurst,  290. 
Boit.  James.  237. 
Bolton  (Lanes'.),  109. 
Bond,  Elizab 
Boston  (Mas 
Bo j! ton,  Jol 
Bouri.mon,  t 


Bov 
Bov 


Bo- 


1 1 


Powell,  2S1. 
"7,  227. 
163. 

;nia,  95. 
m,  42. 
r,  163. 
form,  Craven, 
6,  223, 


2\: 


119.  124,  171,  17; 
Bowstead,  John,  it>«. 
Bracey,  Thomas,  158. 
Bxaddock,  Thomas,  220. 
Bradford.  19. 
Bradford  (Wilts),  122. 
Bradford,  John,'  239. 
Bradley,  Andrew,  196. 
Brad;ey,  John.  171. 
Bradley,  Lucy,  260. 
Bradley,  Margaret,  94. 
Brags,  William,  261. 
Brairhwaite,  George,  116. 
Braithwaite,  J.  Bevan,  112. 
Braiibwaile,  W.  C,  writings, 

36,  39,  92,  95,  105,  in, 

1S6,  189. 
Brayshaw,  A.  writings, 

105,  1  Si. 
Brecon,  iot. 

Breda,  Declaration  at,  2S3. 
Brethren,  The,  4. 
Brick  see  Beck. 
Brickhouse,  George,  31. 
Bridewell  (London),  21. 
Bridgnorth,  102. 
Bridlington,  12  \,  126,  215. 
Brigfiatts,  81. 
Brlgg  (Lines.),  130. 
Briggs,  Isaac,  107. 
BriggS,   Thomas,   11S,  158, 
159. 

Bright,  John,  37,  193. 

Bright,  John,  103. 

Brighton,  77,  78b,  276,  288. 

Bright  wen  family,  15,  16. 

Bringburst,  John.  151,  152. 

Bringhust,  Rosina,  form. 
Matera,  151,  152. 

Brinkworth,  206. 

Bristol,  4,  21,  26,  41-43,  65, 
£9,  98,  104,  11G,  117,  119, 
121,  123,  127,  128,  162, 
165-168,  171,  174.  177, 
1S2,  204,  210,  2ii  ill.,  216, 
217,  219,  220,  231,  232, 

2Cl,  2 So,  2~  S. 

Broadhurst,  Martha,  167. 
Brock.  Richard,  42. 
Brocklebank,  Mary.  222. 
Procksop,  Joan,  117,  121. 
Brocksnp,  Thomas',  121. 


Bromley,  i5. 

Brook,  Mary,  04,  139,  272. 
Brooktield,  Elizabeth,  166. 
Brookneld,  William,  215,  219. 
Broseley,  8r,  n,  S311.  84,  69:1, 
102. 

Broughton,  Little,  130. 
Brown,  Benjamin,  159,  161. 
Brown,  Hannah,  245. 
Thrown,  Joseph,  5m. 
Brown.  Susannah,  28. 
Brown,  Susannah,  31,  199. 
Brown,  Thomas,  31,  199. 
Brown,  William,  253. 
Browne,  James,  13s. 
Browne,  Robert,  136. 
Brown  !owe,    Dr.,  23. 
Brownville  (Va.),  31. 
Bryson,  Agnes,  7. 
Brysr>n,  Margaret,  7. 
Buckinghamshire,  177. 
Bugg,  Francis,  41. 
BuH  and  Mouth,  t6. 
Bulletin  F.Ii.S.  Philadelphia, 

rat,  123.  191. 
Buhnan,  RandaL  r6x. 
Bunce,  Jean,  aft.  Vokins,  l»x- 
Bunnion,  Joshua,  163. 
Bunting,  Joseph,  222. 
Banyan,  John.  290  291,11. 
Burges,  Samuel,  159. 
Burgess,     Charlotte,  form. 

Tomkinsbn,  58,  n. 
Burgess,  Wilson,  580. 
Burgin,  George  B.,  39. 
burials,  27.  29,  45,  78,  90, 

114,  134,  137,  17S,  267. 
Burlington  (N.J.),  119,  122, 

123,  125. 
Burnley,  131. 
Burnside,  34. 

Burnyeat,  John,   nS,  147, 

15S-160,  168,  169. 
Burnyeat,  John,  i"63. 
Burnyeat,  Jonathan,  169. 
Burr,  Elizabeth,  247. 
Burrough,  Edward,  158. 
Bursa!!,  William,  136. 
Burton,  John,  119.  127,  i?3, 

222. 

Burton,  Richard,  n5. 
Barton,  Thomas.  218. 
Burton  on  Stither,  133. 
Bnrtt,  Joseph,  129. 
Butler,  Dr.,  Fox  in  Scotland, 

192,  195. 
Byrd,  Rebecca,  form.  Young, 

132,  153m 
Byrd,  William,  132. 

I    Cadbury,  E.,    F.xp crln\ ,enl 
40. 

Cadbury,  M.  C,  K.  Batchy, 
ro6. 

Cadwallader  of  Wales,  199. 

Cadwallader,  John,  231.  232, 
234. 

Caerleon,  99. 

Cafdbeck,  124. 

Calendar.  25 2n. 

Callow,  Eleanor,  t66,  17*. 
I    Callowhill,  Thomas,  42. 

Cakse.  89,  122. 
I    Calvert,  Gi'.cs,  2-J8. 
!   Camber  well,  66. 

Cambridge,  62,  263,  287. 
I    Camra,  John,  tax. 


300 


INDEX. 


Cv.'.ci,  41- 

Canterbury,  288. 

C  j  ;  170,    179,  219, 

425,  236,  251. 
Cardiff,  :c-o. 

Carleton,     Elizabeth,  a//. 

Sh.ickh.tcn,  15411. 
Carleton.  Thomas,  15411. 
Carli  •■•  John,  166. 
Car'lsle,  6,  127,  287. 

Ci7       V,      l6l,      170,  225-253 

passim. 
Carlovttl  sec  Callow. 
Carlton  (Yorks.),  510. 
Carmarthen,  ior. 
Carmarthen    and  Cardigan 

M.M.,  59. 
Carinartlien  and  Glamorgan 

MM.,  50. 

Carpenter,  Thomas,  21. 
Can*.  Thomas,  227. 
Carre,  Contain,  25. 
Carrick,  177. 
Carrie  22s. 
Carter,  William,  160. 
Car't^nright,  John,  25,  118. 
Carver,  Mary,  2its. 
Cash,  Thomas,  js.4,  n. 
Cashol,  169,  225,"  258. 
Cassoo,  Anthony,  23. 
Castle  Saic-rn,  15S,  163,  170- 

1*0.  212-225  passim. 
Castlelyons,  225,  236,  237. 
Castlernaine,  225. 
Catherine,  Queen,  97. 
Catheriow  see  Car  low. 


U3  ilkiey,  George,  216. 
Chalkley.  Thomas,  ti8,  123, 

125,  1OC,  171. 
Chambers,  Ann,  137. 
Chambers,  E.  S.,  112. 
Chambers,  Grace,  83,  86. 
Cnauibcrs,  John,  169,  171. 
Chandler,  Samuel,  234. 
Chapman,  Anne,  177. 
Chapman,  Thomas,  227,  244. 
Charkot,  204. 

Charles  II.,  97,  263,  282,  2S3, 
285. 

'Char'evilk-,  169-179  passim, 
213-2-.;,  passim,  25L 

Chat!  am,  Kathrrine,  117, 121. 

Cheimsford;  120,  130. 

Chesapeake^  25,  30:  n, 

Cheshire,  30,  igf  154^  163, 
J/'^,  171,  232. 

Chester  (Pa.l,  T20,  125. 

Chester,  Richard,  130. 

Chesterfield,  20,  63,  85. 

Chevers,  Sarah,  158. 

CKippenham,  89,  204,  205. 

Ch  /pi  snk,  26. 

Christie,  John,  257. 

Church  Stretton,  102. 

churching,  28,  134. 

Chnrchman,  John,  255. 

Cireuiat  Y.M.,  oo  205,  see 
also  Wales  Y.M. 

Clare,  Esther,  222. 

<  I  irendori  Code,  273. 

Qai  idgc,  Richard,  88,  114. 
Clerk,  Elizabeth,  form.  Fish. 

<  I  irk,  Mary,  25,  117,  121. 
Clarke,  John,  121. 


Clarke,  John,  134,  135. 
Clarke,  Sarah,  form.  Payton, 

aft.  Baker,  11S,  121,  122, 

163,  166. 
Clarke,  William,  136,  137. 
Clarkson,  Thomas,  44. 
Clayton.  Richard,  63. 
Clements,  Sarah,  118,  124. 
Clemes,  S.  and  51.,  *3. 
Clifton  (Beds.),  215'. 
clockmakers  see  horologists. 
Cloddiau  Cochion,  199. 
Clonakilty,  171,  236. 
Clonivoe,  260. 

Clonmell,    165-174  passim, 

213-256  passim. 
Clothier,  James,  260. 
Coalbrookdale,  Son,  102,  120, 

132,  *5S  19(},  261,  263. 
Coale,  George,  120. 
Coale,  Joseph,  158. 
Coale,  Josiah,  30,  117,  120. 
Coale,  Robert,  120. 
Coats,  R.  H.,  Types,  193. 
Cock,  Luke,  213. 
Cockermouth,  130. 
Cody,  B.,  Friot.is  in  Canada, 

41. 

Coedeowrid,  199. 
Coggeshall,  15.  123. 
Colchester,  41,  89,  165. 
Cole,  Mar}7,  93. 
Colebourne,  William,  26. 
Colley,  Jane,  i3r. 
Colley,  Thomas,  X20,  131. 
Collier,  Robert,  161. 
Collier,  Robert,  220. 
Collier,  Sarah,  21--,. 
Comstock,  Elizabeth,  12.  n. 
Connecticut,  227. 
Constable,  John,  7. 
Constable,  Margaret.  7. 
cenve-nt  icles,  287,  288. 
conversion,  13,  gi,  122,  130, 

138,  240,  243,  253. 
Cook,  Lucretia,  16. 
Cooke,  Deborah,  227. 
Cooksey,  John,  163. 
Cooladine.  127. 
Cooie,  Benjamin,  i6r. 
Cooper  of  America,  191. 
Cooper,  Edward,  16. 
Cooper,  John,  16. 
Cooper.  {Catherine,  159. 
Cooper,  Mary,  228. 
Cooper,  T.  P.,  v.-ritings,  195, 

198,  200,  292. 
Copeland.  Margaret,  119,  127, 

218,  230. 
Copeley  (Copeland),  William, 

213- 

Corder  family,  16. 

Cork,  157-180,  212-262,  280. 

Cornwall,  38,  no,  220,  228, 

28S. 

Corsham.  89,  204-206. 
Cotton,  Priscilla,  93. 
Courtney,   Ruth,    119,  127, 

237,  240,  241,  254. 
Cove,  216,  233,  261, 
Coventry,  Son,  154x1,  261. 
Cawbridge,  100. 
Cox,  John,  15^. 
Cox,  Sarah,  15G. 
Cramer,,  Andrew,  231. 
Cranage,  George^  S9,  n. 
Cranbrookj  268. 


Craven,  Abigail,  aft.  Bcwlcs 
and  Watson,  179,  213,  21S. 

Crawley,  Sarah,  245. 

Crawshaw,  M.  E.,  Writings, 
39,  123,  194. 

Cresswell,  Rachel,  form,  Fry, 
52n. 

Cromwell,  Oliver,  3,  93,  98, 

192,  2S2,  283,  285. 
Crook,  John,  272. 
Crosfield,  George,  130. 
Crosrield,   H.   G.,  Margaret 

Fox,  192,  105. 
Crosfield,   Isabel,  aft.  Gaw- 

throp,  128. 
Crosfield,  James  B.,  191. 
Crosfield,  Jane,  form.  Row- 

landson,  120,  130,  260. 
Crouch,  Ruth,  16.  114. 
Crousorj,  Mary,  167,  215. 
Croydon  M.M.,  59. 
Cruickshank   of  Edinburgh, 

4.  5,  49- 
Cruickshank,   Alexander,  i, 

4,  49- 

Cumberland,  it 8,  119,  122- 
124,  127,  128,  130,  154.11, 
159-172  passim,  214-246 
passim.  287. 

Curtis,  Anne,  28S. 

Curtis,  John,  246,  247. 

Curwen,  Thomas  and  Alice, 
118. 

Dalmailing,  115. 
Dance,  George,  42. 
Daniels,  James,  88,  n,  261. 
Danson,   John,    119,  125. 

165,  216. 
Danson,  Mary,  125. 
Darby  (Pa.),  130. 
Darby  of  Salop,  79-92,  132, 

155. 

Darby,  Abiah,  79-92,  132, 
153,  196,  203,  295. 

Darby,  Deborah,  form.  Bar- 
nard, 79  iU,  120,  132,  153, 
155,  192. 

Darlington,  104,  271. 

Davidson,  Thomas,  Manner 
of  Worship,  icjz. 

Davies  of  Wales,  rqy. 

Davies,  Nicholas,  243. 

Davies,  Richard,  82m 

Davis,  John,  209  ill. 

Davy,  Alice,  aft,  Ellis,  122. 

Declaration  of  Indulgence, 
283,  2S5,  2S6. 

"  defalk,"  23,  n. 

Delap.  George,  215. 

Dell,  A.  W.,  Church  in  Wales, 
38. 

Dennis,  Ann,  aft.  Fennell, 
227. 

Dennis,  John,  234. 

Dennis,  Sarah,  form.  Newcn- 

ham,  234. 
Dent,  127. 

Dent,  Hannah,  119,  127. 
Dent,  John,  1 33- 
Denwood,  Levin,  30,  ri. 
Dcpledse,  George.  167. 
Derby,  fes,  164,  185,  191,  219, 
287/ 

Derkindren,  Ann,  233. 
Demeiley,  William,  63. 
Dc\  izes,  89,  204,  205. 


INDEX. 


301 


Devonshire,  2SS. 
Devonshire,  Countess  of,  97. 
Devonshire  House,  97,  104, 

107,  324,  iSS,  27S. 
Devonshire,  J  boas,  236,  239. 
Devonshire,  Sarah,  aft.  New- 

enhara,  239. 
Dew,  Coi.  Thomas,  26. 
Delve  s,  Watson  \V..  39. 
Dewsbury,  William,  53,  194. 
Dickinson  of  Wilts,  zGn,  204. 
Dickinson,  James,  118,  122, 

161,   162,   165,   167,  169, 

173,  215,  222. 
Dickinson,   Richard,  239. 
Dicks,  Zacbariah,  108. 
Dillingham,  John  H.,  7S. 
Dilwortli,  Margaret,  aft.  Gray, 

Diiworlh,  Marv,  aft.  Howison, 
2,  6. 

discipline,  revival  of,  130. 

disown  merit,  197. 

Dixon,  Christopher,  129. 

Dixon,  Elizabeth,  form. 
Grainier,  129. 

Dixon,  Hannah,  form.  Park- 
in?, 129. 

Dixon,  Jane,  239,  2.4s. 

Dixon,  Joshua,  ir9,  129, 
252. 

Dixon,  Sarah,  234,  23S,  245. 
Dobbin,  John,  322. 
Dobbs,  Martha,  2s r. 
Dockery,  Thomas,"  159,  160. 
Dockray,  John,  196. 
Dodgson,  Francs,  196. 
Doleing  (Dowlen)  family,  43. 
Dolgyn,  270. 
Dolobran,  137,  199. 
Djlton.  Richard,  269. 
Doncaster,  L..  Heredity,  37. 
D^neraile,  236,  251. 
Dorchester,  2SS. 
Dorothy  Day,  ni. 
Dorset,  12S,  132,  2S8. 
Diiill.  David  and  Mary,  1-4, 

46-4S. 
Dover,  93,  200,  288. 
Dover,  Mary,  173. 
D^ver, William,  173.  T75,  212, 

214. 

dress,  3,,  6,  10,  113,  131,  218, 

229,  291. 
drink,  So,  82. 

Dronheld,  80  n. 
Drummond,  George,  3. 
Drummond,  May,  3,  60,  239, 

257,  279. 
Dry,  Martha,  form.  Meakins, 

16. 

Dry.  William,  if>. 

Dublin,  0,  119,  12  r,  126-128, 

131*  ?54j  161-180  passim, 
'  20911,2x0,  212-2'la  passim, 

289. 

Dublin  National  Half  Year's 

Meeting.  152,  29 X. 
Dnc;e,  Abigail,  114. 
Dudl  y,  122. 

Dudley,  A.  C.,  Nonconformity, 
Dundee,  8. 

Dimgarvan,  17.,  219,  225, 

227.  229,  236. 
Dunrnmv/ay,  170,  225,  236* 

250,  251,  253,  234. 


Dunn,  John,  290. 
Dunstable,  126. 
Dunstone,  George,  135,  736. 
Durant,  George,  191. 
Durham,  irS,  119,  129,  r<?2, 

220,  221,  237,   252,  2S7. 

292. 

Durr.tus,  I  rances,  229. 
Dursley,  98. 

Dymond  family,  63,  98a. 
Dymond,  G.  Cecil,  511?. 
Dymond,  Jonathan,  cS. 

Ealand,  Sarah,  219. 
Ealing,  42. 
East  Amelia,  44. 
East  Karkaam,  123. 
East  Nottingham  (Pa.),  255. 
Eastern  Shore  of  Md.,  30. 
Eaton,  Samuel,  19,  a. 
Eccles.,  Solomon,  nS,  15S. 
Ecroyd,  John,  iGS. 
Edenderry,   122,   127,  226, 

227,  247,  259,  2S0. 
Edinburgh,  1-11,  45-50,  196, 

200,  23S. 
Edmondsou,  Mary,  aft.  Glover, 

169,  176. 
Edmondson,    William,  118, 

150,  160, 162, 1C3, 166, 168, 

177- 

Edmonton,  149-152. 
Ed:rmnd-on,  Joshua,  6. 
Edraundsoa,     Marv,  for,):. 

Wigham,  2. 
education,  38,  39,  52n,  69, 

89,    106,    130,  149,  159, 

169,  203. 
Edwards,  Anne.  114. 
Edwards,  Edward,  159. 
Edv.-ards,  Elizabeth,  28. 
Edwards,  Jane,  42. 
Edwards,  Thomas,  42. 
Eldroth.  12 s. 
Eliot,  Philip,  240. 
Elizabeth,  Princess,  29 

265. 

Ellertcn,  Mary,  118, 

1 78,  220,  230. 
Ellington,  Marv,  242. 
Ellis  of  Wales,'  199. 
Ellis,  Alice,  form.  Davy, 
Ellis,  John,  161. 
Ellis,  William,  118.  122, 

162. 

EUwood,  Thomas,  35,  266. 
Eliy,  Deborah,  222. 
Elson  (Nelson)  of  Sussex,  276, 
297. 

emigratij  n,  1211,  52n,  108, 
122-125,  127,  '28,  130,  131, 
isi,  152,  211 ,  27  m,  272. 

Eni'cn,   Samuel,  260. 

Endon  of  Wale-,  100. 

Eniuskeanj  r7o,  173. 

Epworth,  135. 

Erwin  see  Urwin. 

Es.-  \,  r;„  So,  120,  122,  123, 

126,  130,  131,  !••>,  I/O, 
2l8,  232. 

Est  a  igb,  John,  irS,  124,  226. 
F.ucke>:  and  Btrgson,  14.1. 
Evangelical  Friend,  106. 
Evans,  IKathei  ine,  1 58. 
Lv;.:h,     Margaret,  form. 

Southall,  52:1,  57m 
Everard,  John,  164,  165. 


123, 


43,  ! 


Eves,  Jonathan,  2 21. 
Exeter,  9^.0,  132,  219,  220, 

228,  256,  285,  288. 
Extracts  ftoii  State  Papers, 

104,  282a. 
Eya'm,  17. 

FalxT,  Dr.  Otto,  288. 
Fairthwaite,  Thomas,  234. 
Falconer  of  Londoii,  50. 
Fallownold,  Jacbb,  118,  122, 
165- 

Fallowfield,  John,  17s,  215, 
2:6 

Falmouth.  17,  20o,  2F8. 
family  visits,  225,  236,  246, 

254,  256,  261,  280. 
Farmborough,  Mariabella,  16. 
Farmer.  John,  170.  176. 
Farnsworth,   Richard,  2.1. 
Farrington,  Abraham,  2^0. 

Farrow'  Michael,  '28. ' 
Fawcet,      Minaret ,  form. 

Barrow  and  Min.-hall,  215. 
Fawcett,  Marv,  228. 
Fayle,  Jane,  247,  ^59- 
Fearon,   Jane,  r66. 
Fearon,  Peter,  .160,  165,  212. 
Fearon,  Peter,  212.  , 
feast-day  work,  20. 
Featherstonc,     A. ice,  aft. 

Hall,  X30,  2 '.2,  239.  246. 
Featherstone,  Hannah,  238. 
Feathcrstone.     John  and 

Isabella,  130. 
Felixstowe,  lit. 
Fell  of  America.  191. 
Fell  of  Swarthm^or,  -13.  ir4"- 
FeJl,  Deborah,  if  I.  Leigh  ton, 


XI. 


:,  eft.  Fox,  19, 


Fell,  Sarah,  U2. 

Fell,  Thomas,  230. 

Fell,  William.'  i6r.  166,  172. 

Fell  Smith,  C,  fee  Smith. 

Fcnger,  H.,  on  Pevonshire 

House,  107. 
Fer.n,  Elizabeth,  aft.  Ozley, 

130- 

Ferm,   Jane,  aft.  Hoskens, 

125, 227. 

Fcan,  John,  290,  291,  n. 
Fehn,  Joseph,  166. 
Fennel!,  Ann,  form.  Dermis, 
227. 

FenrJelL  Benjamin,  227. 
Fenneir,    Elizabeth,  form. 

Pease,  247,  249,  251,  252, 

257,  25<r26i. 
Ferine'],   Joshua,   247,  »5Ti 

250,  262. 
FenneU,  Mary,  for-n.  Lucas, 

2C2. 

FcmKT,  William,  240,  262. 
Ferguson,  Wi'liam,  116. 
Ferrvbrid-ze,  85. 
Fetch,  James.  161,  164. 
Fethard,  22-->. 

fiction,  3;,  107,  ito,  m,  104- 
Fielding,  Joshua,   119,  1 

221. 

"Firs/  Publishers  of  Fr*tt, 
198. 

Fish,  Elizabeth,  aft.  O  ^rke, 
»37- 


302 


INDEX. 


Fisher,  Ann,  cS. 
Fisher,  Elizabeth,  222. 
Fishe^  John,  226. 
richer,  Martha,  142. 
Fisher.,  Mary,  25,  93,  117. 
Fisher,  Thomas,  90. 
Fisher's  Folly,  97. 
Fkc  Yeats  Meeting,  193. 
Fletcher  of  Madeiey,  60,  87, 

qo,  02  n. 
Fletcher,  James,  15S,  163. 
Fletcher,  Pet-r,  164. 
Fletcher,  Thomas,  118,  tax. 
Flower,  Edith,  248. 
Folkestone,  129. 
Folic;,  Sarah,  114. 
FoiMs,  Ruth.'aC-i. 
Forbes,  Hugh,  90. 

FnT"d    PtTrbV    S3    T) . 

Ford,   Marv,   fota:.  Darby, 

79  ill- 
lord,  Philip,  145,  148. 
Ford,  Richard,  79  ill,  81,  n. 
foreign  missions,    39,  5211, 

240. 

Forrester,  Brook,  82. 
Foster  familv,  10. 
Foster,  Ann.'  28. 
Foster,  Ma 
FcthergMl, 

124,  12( 
224,  245 


y,  28,  29. 
John,   11S,  119, 
129,   167,  223, 


Br.    John,  124, 


Fothergii 

129,  1 01. 
Fothergill,  Samuel,  119,  124, 

129,  245,  253. 
Foulke,  VV.  D.,  Dorothy  Day, 
in. 

Fowier  of  Melksham,  5611. 
Fowler,  Heary,  243. 
Fowler,  Mary,  aft.  Gurney, 

56,  it. 
Fowler,  William,  27. 
Fox.  Francis,  17,  n. 
Fox,  George,  18,  19,  25,  31, 

35  3S,  9",  105,  110,  118, 

140-148,  15S,  156,  n. 
Fox,  G.,  Journal,  195. 
For.  George,  in  Scotland,  192. 
Fox,  George  Croker,  799,  200. 
"  Fox,  Mr.."  17,  104. 
Fox,  Margaret,  form.  Fell, 

142,  151. 
Fox,  Margaret,  192. 
Fox,  Martian   E.,  Calendar, 

105. 

Fox,  Mar-hah  Nr.,  39. 
Fox,  Mary,  form.  Were,  200. 
Fox,  Sylvanus,  104. 
FrancB,  ,59,  94,  125,  129,  130. 
F'ra.-idlev,  10,  no. 
Frank,  Edward  B.,  9811. 
Frank'  Elizabeth,  200. 
Frank,  Sarah,  aft.  Lovc.il,  g8n. 
Frankiord  Asyiuin,  190. 
Frankland,  Henry,'  119,  126, 
227. 

Frankland,  Julian,  164,  223, 
230. 

Frayling,  W,  Russell,  191. 
Freeman,  Charles.  264. 
Freeman,  James,  42. 
Freeth,  Arm,  15431. 
FreMh,  H;>miah,  aft.  Beving- 

f.n,  15  1 ,  n. 
Freeth,   Joseph,   Son,  86n, 

154ft, 


Friends,  early  estimates,  20. 
Friends;  modern  estimates,  34, 

36,  100.  191,  192. 
Friends'   Year  Book,  109. 
Frodiogham,  135. 
Frost,  Katharine,  167. 
Frost,  Sarah, 228. 
Fry,  Ahrahaiu,  220. 
Fry,  Sir  Edward,  39. 
Fry,  Sir  E.,  Some  Intima- 

Hoks,  294. 
Fry,  Elizabeth,  1211,  35,  37, 

5211,  50-38,  103,  193,  196. 
Fry,  John,  154Q; 
Fry,  Joseph,  103. 
Fry,  Joseph  Storrs,  69. 
Fry,  Rachel,  aft.  Cresswell, 

521. 

Fryer,  Sarah,  114. 
Fmier,  Abraliam,  161. 
Fuller,  Abraham,  241,  243, 

248,  250,  251,  254,  256- 

258,  261,  262. 
Fuller,  Jacob,  166,  169,  222. 
Fuller,  Wiiiiam,  112. 
Furiy,  Benjamin,  43,  294, 

Gales,  Ann,  53,  n. 
Gales,  Sarah,  52,  n. 
Gamball,  Elizabeth,  122. 
gardens,  291. 
Gar  gill,  Anne,  93. 
Garratt,  Joseph.    154,  280, 
295- 

Garthorpe  (Lines.),  134. 
Gathorne,  Fortune,  134,  135. 
Gawthrop,     Isabel,  form. 

Crosfield,  12S. 
Gawthrop,  Thcinas,  119,  120, 

12S,  137,  243,  244. 
Gee,  Tane,  22s,  230. 
George  II.,  43. 
George  III.,  190. 
Georgia,  icS. 

Germany.  9,  94,  109,  122,  125, 

149,  I54n,  195,  231. 
Gibb,  Wi:!iam,  3. 
Gibbons,  Abraham,  272. 
Gibbs,  Hek-p.us.  8. 
Gibbs,  Sarah,  8. 
Gibson,     Elizabeth,  form. 

Hoyle  and  Robinson,  131, 

169. 

Gibson,  George,  131. 
Gibson,  George,  216. 
Gibson,  Wiiiiam,  147,  158. 
Gilbert,  Ann,  form.  Taylor, 
51.  n. 

Gilbert,  Bartholomew,  30. 
Gilbert,  Joseph,  51,  11. 
Gild  rsome,  131. 
Gill,  Anna,  230. 
Gill,  Elizabeth,  242. 
Gill,  Isabel,  form.  Robinson, 
127. 

Gill,  Isabella,  aft.  Middleton, 

24S,  259. 
Gi.'i,  Jo.-..ph,  119.  i?7,  179, 

215,  220,  223,  226,  232, 

2  =;S,  2i2,  240,  248, 
Gil'',   Mary,   a't.  SanfarWh. 

24*. 

Gil!,  Roger,  118,  123. 
Gill,  William  and  Jifargaret, 
127- 

GingeHi  Martha  C,  4. 
Ginu  of  London, 41. 


Glaistcr,   Daniel,   226,  227, 

248. 

Glaister,   Joseph,   n3,  124, 

163,  164,  169,  230. 
Glasgow,  7. 

Gloucestershire,  S9,  9S,  120. 
123,  163  204.  211  ill. 

Glover,  Mary,  form.  Edmund- 
son,  176,  227. 

Glover,  T.  R.,  Christian 
Society.  24. 

Godfrey,  Wbliam,  166.  k'.S. 

God.'ee,  Sir  R.  J.,  writings, 
195. 

Godsalve,  Jennet,  aft.  Back- 
house, 127. 

Gold,  John,  276. 

Gold,    Prisciila,  form.  

and  Elson,  276. 

Good,  Elizabeth,  aft.  Wy^r, 
137. 

Goodhi!!,  Hugh,  134,  135. 
Gordon,  A.,  Heresy,  293. 
Gospel  Order,  70-76. 
Gotley  (Gotby),  Richard,  42. 
Goudhurst,  2S8. 
Gough,  James.  245,  250. 
Gough,  John, 209,  n. 
Gough,  Mary,  209a. 
Goush,  Mary.  245. 
Gould,  Ann,  94. 
Gove,  Richard,  171. 
Gowith,  Richard.  159. 
grace  at  meals,  83,  87. 
Graham,  George,  34. 
Graham,  James,  119,  125. 
Graham,  John  VV.,  7. 
Graham,    J.    W.,  writings, 
194. 

Graham,  Michael,  7. 
Graham,  William,  125. 
Grainger,  Caleb,  220. 
Grainier,    Elizabeth,  aft. 

Dixon,  129. 
Grange  (Ireland),  127. 
Gratton,  John,  164. 
Graveiey,  Robert,  23. 
Graves,  John,  147. 
gravestop.es,  45. 
Gray,  Elizabeth,  4. 
Gray.  John,  2. 
Gra>%  John  M.,  2. 
Gray,   Margaret,  form.  Dil- 

worth,  2. 
Gray,  William,  3. 
Green  family,  16. 
Green,  Gurne'l  C,  191. 
Green,  Thomas,  142. 
Grtenhow,  Mary,  168. 
Greenup,  William,  162,  1G5, 

215- 

Greenwood.  Thomas,  220. 
Greer,  James.  215. 
Greer,  John,  213. 
Greer,  Thomas,  262. 
Gre.iet,  Stephen,  132. 
Grey,  John,  11  j. 
Greyspttthenf,  12.8. 
Gribble,  Nicholas,  127,  I'm, 

166,  170,  173. 
Gril  ble,  Sarah,  127. 
Griffith  of  Wales,  199. 
Griffith,    Elizabeth,  for>n. 

Heath,  62. 
Griffith,      Frances,  form. 

Wyatt,  130. 
Griffith,  Cc  rge,  C?. 


INDEX. 


303 


Griffith,  John.  120,  130,  248. 
Grifiits,  Frances,  aft.  Knight, 
222. 

Groome,  Samuel,  143,  n. 
Grubb,  E.,  writings,  195. 
Gummere,  Francis  B.,  40. 
Gunner.  Ann,  252,  257. 
Gurnell  of  Ealing,  42. 
Gurney  of  Earlham,  17. 
Guraey,  Aim,  139. 
Gurney.  John  Henry,  56,  n. 
Gurney,  Joseph,  218. 
Gurney.  Joseph  J.,  56,  112, 
196. 

Gurney,  Mary,  form.  Fowler, 

56,  n. 
Gurnev,  Priseilla,  95. 
Gurney,  Prisciha  Fl.,  17. 


Hackney,  Joseph.  26. 
Hadwen,  Isaac,  119,  125. 
Hadwen,  Sarah,  fo>m.  Moore, 
125. 

Hag  en  family,  16. 

H  agga  c ,  Agnes,  fo?m.  Tomlin- 

son,  27cm. 
Haldenby,  Gerald,  134,  135. 
Halifax,  47. 

Halifax  of  Lincolnshire,  135- 
137- 

Hall,  Alice,  form.  Feather- 
stone,  T20,  130. 

Hall,  David,  238. 

H<.!i,  Isaac,  130. 

Hail  (Hull),  John,  118. 

Hall,  John,  130. 

Hall,  John,  162,  212. 

Hsu,  William,  138. 

Haiiday,  James.  i=;o. 

Halsey,  Edward,  113. 

Hainan,  Sarah,  171. 

Hambleton  sec  Hamilton. 

Hamilton,  218. 

Hampshire:,  210,  288. 

Hampton  (Glos.),  204. 

Hampton  (Va.),  26. 

Hand,  Thomas,  226. 

HargreaVes,  Lydia,  aft.  Neild, 
57n. 

Hargreaves,  William,  57,  n. 
Harris,   Hannah,   120,  130, 
245. 

Harris,  Hannah,  226,  237. 
Harris,  J.  Rend-.],  39,  106. 
Harris,  Joseph,  248. 
Harris^  Mary,  form.  BeaJe, 
24S. 

Harris,  Mary,  230. 
Harris,  Mary,  234,  233. 
Harris,  Nicholas,   173,  174, 

223,  229. 
Harrison   of  Brighton  and 

Poole,  77,  780,  276. 
Harrison  of  Kendal,  6. 
Harrison  of  Lincolnshire,  28, 

29. 

marti&m  of  Sheffield,  58. 
Harrison,  George,  160. 
Harrison,  Margaret,  114. 
Har/ "&c  n,  Simon,  158. 
Harrison,  Thomas,  166,  218. 
Harrison,  William,  77,  276. 
Hart,  John,  63. 
Hart,  Prisei'la,  114. 
Harvey,  T.  EM  Wayfarer*a 
Fniirt,  194,  195. 


Harvey,  William,  192. 
Harwich,  114. 
Harwood,  Joseph,  256. 
Haslam,    John:    119,  128, 
228. 

Hassen,  Gherret,  23S,  246, 
=53,  257. 

Hastrop,  125. 

hats  in  church,  44. 

Hatsell,  Anthony,  210. 

Harton,  Edward.  1=54,  2.80. 

Hat  ton,  Joseph,  127. 

Ha  it  on,  Robert.  1G0. 

Hatton,  Susanna,  form. 
Hudson,  teft.  Lightfoot,  120, 
t27,  130,  254,  259,  260. 

Hawick,  4. 

Hawkins,  Mercy,  aft,  Tasker, 

129. 
Haxey,  136. 
Hav,  91,  iox. 

Haydock,   John.   1x8,  158, 

159,  *74- 
Haydock.  Ro?.er,  160. 
Hayes,  Alice,  95. 
Havton,  John,  160. 
i    Haytvard,  Rev.  John,  01. 
Haywood,  Mary,  ait.  Martin, 

Healev.  277. 
Heath  of  Mansfield,  6r. 
Heath,  Elizabeth,  25,  61-64. 
Heath,  Elizabeth,  aft.  Griffith^ 
62.  . 

Heathcote  of  Derbyshire,  197.  ! 

Helrnont,  F.  M.  van,  43. 

Flenderson,  Patrick,  118,  124,  1 
167,  169,  170.  175. 

Henderson,  Robert,  130. 
j    Henderson,     William,  172, 
I  T?9- 

!    Henley-on-Tliames,  198. 
j    Hereford,  S6,  roi,  163. 

Heritage,  Ephraim,  226. 

Heritage,  Oswdl,  118,  121. 

Hertfordshire.  120,  245,  277. 

Hrston  of  America,  191. 

Hiatt,  William  J..  12m 

Hiccins.  John,  T83. 

Higgs.  Dr..  21. 

Hicrhflatts,  55. 

Highly,  S6. 
.    lii'lar%v,  Cnppa°e,  214. 

Hipsley,  Richard,  246. 

Hitchin,  124.  129,  2S3,  2/7- 

Hoaf,  Lindley  M.,  187. 

Iloare,  Joseph,  175.  213. 

Iloare.  Margaret,  form.  Satter-  j 
thwaite,  213,  216. 

Hobart  School,  38. 

Hnbson,  Anne,  134,  135. 

Hodgkin,  Henry  T.,  Message, 
tit. 

j    Hodgfein,  J.  Edward,  Durham,  ' 
292. 

Hodrktn.Thom-^,  30,  40,  in. 
j    Hodgson,  David,  216,  245. 
I    Hod -son,  John,  53. 
!    Hod'.rson,  John,  222. 
I    Holbein,  YViiliara,  296* 

Holder,  C.  F.,  QUkers,  294. 
•  j    Holland,  44,  121,  122,  124, 

125,  199,  229,  238,  246.  j 

Hull-  nd,  Samael,  107. 
j    Holland,  WiBiam,  197. 
!    Holliday,  James,  159.  ! 
I   HoMym,  287.        '  I 


Holme,  Benjamin,  119,  125, 

166,    169,    179,    22T,  224, 

225,  236,  237. 
Holme,  Jane,  93. 
Holmes,  Robert,  239. 
Honthorst,  Gerard,  97. 
Hood,  Ann,  28. 
Floope,  Robert,  166. 
Hooton,  Elizabeth,  93,  117, 

118. 

Hopper,  Isaac  7.,  3S. 
Hopwood,  Samuel,  119,  128, 

220,  223,  22S. 
Home  or  Sussex,  78m 
Home!!,  William,  165. 
Horn  r.  Tabitha,  127. 
Hornsea,  287. 
neurologists,  34,  130. 
Horsham.  285,  288. 
Horton,  Agnes,  form.  Wilst  □ 

So,  n. 
Horton,  Robert,  89m 
Hosk  ns,  James,  177,  216. 
Floskens,  Jane,  form.  Fenn, 

12s,  126,  247. 
Hoskins,  Mary,  219. 
Howard.  Marv,  218. 
Howell, 'Arthur,  78. 
Howell,   Charles,   163,  165, 

167-169,    174,    177,  170. 

214,  218,  225,  23s,  236. 
Howgill,  Francis,  158,  28s. 
Howgill,  Mary.  93. 
Hov.  iscn  of  Edinburgh,  2. 
Howison,  Mary,  form.  Dil- 

worth,  2,  6. 
Howitt,  M.'.wri  rings,  200.  27^. 
Hoyle,  Eiizaheth,  aft.  Robin- 
son and  Gibson,  131. 
Hoyle,  John,  131. 
Hovle.  Marv,  131, 
Hubbard.  Miles,  114. 
Hubbertborne,  Richard,  :o. 
Hudson,  Elizabeth,  135,  13 f<. 
Hudson,  Elizabeth,  247. 
Hudson,  Peter.  227. 
Fludson,  Susannah,  aft.  Hsit- 

ton   and   Lightfoof;  119, 

127,  2(0,  2}t. 

Hughsbn,  Darnel,  231 . 
Hull,  287. 

Flu!!  (Hall).  John,  11S,  297. 
Hull,  Joseph,  205. 
Hume,  Sophia,  94. 
Humphreys,  Anne,  126. 
Flun^ar  River,  26,  31. 
Hunt,  John,  119,  127,  237-:  >,z. 
Hunter,  Stephen,  16s. 
FIimtiriEdon,  l.ady.  92,  n. 
Hutchinson,  Elizabeth,  :S4. 
Flutchincon,  Elizabeth,  form. 

Wilson,  22'. 
Hutchinson,  James;  169. 
Hutchinson,  Jonathan, 

226,  2SJ. 

Hutton,  John,  uS,  122. 

lanson  of  Yorkshire,  277. 

lanscm,  Jch><,  Life  of,  277. 

llchester.  ;'.=,. 

Impey,  William,  249,  250. 

Indiana,  12.  108. 

Indianapolis,  12. 

Indians,  ir,  26.  31,  39,  io3. 

113,  123,  127. 
Iniehannon,  247. 
Inittrey,  273. 


304 


INDEX. 


insane,  ino. 
inventions,  107,  116. 

Ipswich.  163,  25:. 

Ireland,  6,  S,  94,  in,  118-120, 
12?,  I2J,"  120-132,  152, 
r^r-iSo,  210,  212-262. 

l$$a,  130. 

I .  in?,  -a,  James,  163. 
lvis  0  of  Cumberland,  4. 
Ivison,  John,  163. 

Jackson  of  Ireland,  127. 
J  lckson,  Ivj>hr?.im,  171. 
J.ickson,  Henry,  223. 
Jacks  hi,  Henry,  265. 
j  ackson,  Nicholas,  164,  165. 
Jacjcsoq,  Sarah,  224.  236. 
Jacob.  Elizabeth,  167.  173. 

22I,  227,  233,  235,  237,  ' 

23?,  240. 
Jacobs'  biscuits,  111,  199. 
j  v&ray,  Margaret,  167. 
Jamaica,  6,  n3,   121,  122, 

171,  203.  204. 
Fames  II.,' 263. 
James  City,  26. 
James,  Eleanor,  95. 
Jamestown,  30,  117- 
Jay,  John,  25. 
Jay,  Ma:y,  form.  Pask,  170. 
Jcfierys,  John,  20+. 
Jobson.  Rebecca,  218. 
J  ~hn.  John  ap,  192. 
Johnson,  Elizabeth,  133.  134. 
Johnson,  John,  133,  134. 
Johnson,  Paul,  119",  "i>5,  173, 

175,  213,  220,  222,  224- 

227,  220,  232,  240. 
Johnson,  Richard,  15S. 
Johnson,  Dr.  Samuel.  36. 
Johnston  of  Edinburgh,  6,  7. 
Jolly,  Ann,  aft.  Mosgravej  1. 
Jones,  Arthur.  229,  231.  270,  n. 
Jones,      Elizabeth,  form. 

Lkhtfoot,  27on. 
Jon'-,  Ernest.  36. 
J  Mies,  J.  L.,  Peace  not  War, 

274,  277. 
J'^es,  Rufus  M.,  40,  roo. 
Jones;  Sybil,  199. 
Jones,  T.JIiJ'ryof  Bftnsidc, 

r  34' 

Jordan,  Joseph,  226. 
j  tdan,  Robe  t,  22^. 
lores,  Dr.  A.,  StuJien,  36 
Jttdd,  Hannah,  224. 

Kear'.y.  Leonard,  r.59,  162, 
163. 

Keith,  George,  70-7S. 
Kelsall  of  Wifefrj  1991 
K  :!sall,  J..  Diaries,  122,  126, 
-    i.27i  137,  271,  n,  270,  2S1. 
Keisey,  Raynet  IV.,  36. 
Kelso,  196. 

Kemp,    Susannah  form., 
r  Horse,  7S,  n. 
Kendal,  6,  79,  bt,  115,  u6, 

t20,  1;  7,  12>S,  130,  XOI,  103, 
20;,  7IO,  22::,  22S,  257, 
270. 

Kendall,  Etizabetb,  223. 
K-t..'U:,  Sarah,  Phipps, 

KwuiorlBy,  J-.hn,  167. 
Lenuck,  Rachel,  2^. 


Kerley  see  Kearly. 
Kerry.  171,  176,  22s.  237. 
Key,  Elizabeth,  170. 
Key,  Lctrice,  aft.  Toft,  2oSn. 
Keyes,  James,  244,  249,  259- 

261. 
Kickotan,  26. 

Kidd,  Benjamin,  119,  126, 

138,  209,  221,  22S. 
Kidd  (Mary),  form.  Beesley. 

22S. 

Kidderminster,  102. 
Kidsley  Park.  1S5. 
Kiicommon,  222,  248,  252, 

257,  261,  202. 
Kilconnor,  126,  257. 
Kiifinnan,  158. 
Kilhara,  Hannah,  form.  Spurr, 

Killaimey,  225. 

Kiinock,  258. 

Kilshanaig,  239. 

Ki  'worth,  225. 

King,  John,  232. 

King,   Lawrence,   119,  126, 

168. 
Kingham,  216. 
Kingston-on-Thames,  26, 142. 
Kingston,  etc.,  M.M.,  59. 
Kinsale,    15S-179  passim, 

213-257  passim. 
Kirby,  Mary,  form.  Ransome, 

120,  129,  245,  247. 
Kirby,  Samuel,  129. 
Kirbyinoorside,  130. 
Kirk  descendants,  191. 
Kitchin,  Richard,  159. 
Knight,  Frances,  form.  Grifiits, 

222. 

Knight,  George,  222. 
Knight,  Sir  John,  233. 
Knight,  John,  288. 
Knighton,  Elizabeth,  245. 
Knipe,  George,  161,  163. 
Knowles,  James,  159,  i6r, 

164,  165,  167. 
Knowles,  Mary,  36. 

Lackey  see  Lecky. 
Lambom,    E.    T.,  Edith's 

Silver  Comb,  no. 
Larnson,  Grace,  95. 
Lancashire,    113,    11S,  irg, 

121,  125,   130,   1.59,  164, 

165,  167-169,  172,  174, 
178,  213,  220,  220-22?,  245, 
248,  259. 

Lancaster,  5i,  126,  127,  140, 
142,  163,  164,  rS?,  196, 
198,  224.  236. 

Lancaster,  James,  n 3,  15 S, 
162. 

Lancaster,  Joseph,  37. 
Lancaster,    Lyriia.    03,    85,  i 

119,  125,  178,  241. 
Lanee,  Eraun,  52. 
Langdale,  Jostah,  11S,  rxo, 

124. 

Langdale,  Margaret,  215. 
Laugh  jrrif,  Thomas,  147,  n. 
Large,  Lbcnezer,  246. 
Earrym  >re.  Thomas,  159. 
Laley,  Gi.bert,  285. 
Laugh  rue,  67,  iy_,. 
Launcescon,  38. 
Lawrence,  An  then  y,  20r>. 
Lawrence,  Sir  Thomas,  42. 


Lawrence,  Sarahj  aft.  Leigh, 
206. 

Lawson,  Thomas,  128. 
Lay,  Sarah,  222. 
Le.tdbeater,     Mary,  form. 

Shackleton,  153,  u. 
Leak,  Alice,  159. 
Leake,  John,  19. 
Lean,  Bevan,  40. 
Leaver,  John,  131. 
Leaver,  Mary,  120,  131,  297. 
Lecky,  250. 
Lecky,  Elizabeth,  157. 
Lecky,  John,  170. 
Lecky,  Robert,  258. 
Ledgwick  (Sedgwick),  Stephen, 

227. 
Lee,  John,  23. 

Leeds,  79,  123,  127,  131,  192, 
287. 

Leek,  196,  209. 
Leicester,  sSn,  261. 
Leigh,  Sarah,  form.  Lawrence, 
206. 

Leigh,  William,  206. 
Leighton,     Deborah,  form. 

Fell,  237. 
Leighton,  Lady,  92. 
Leith.  10. 
Lely,  Sir  Peter,  96. 
Lenthah,  Sir  John,  141. 
Le  miinster,  102,  140. 
Lettsonr,  John  C,  66-63,  203. 
Lewis,  Ellis,  214. 
Lewis,     G.     K.,  writings, 

95,  no,  195. 
Lewis,  Mary.  235,  256. 
Lichfield,  85. 
light  inward,  11. 
Lightfoot,    E-iizabcth,  aft. 

Jones,  270m 
Lightfoot,  Michaei,  127,  242. 
Lightfoot,    Susannah,  form. 

Hudson  and  Hatton,  127. 
Lightfoot,  Thomas,  127,  173, 

170.  215,  27011. 
Limerick,      127,  jftz-iyx 

passim,  213-262  pn_-?im. 
Lincolnshire,  27-29,  119,  120, 

129,    130,    133-137,  174, 

215,  216,  220. 
Lindfield,  T91. 
Lindlev,  H.,  Quakers  in  Old 

North  West,  108. 
Linthorne,  Mary,  aft.  Harri- 
son, 77. 
Lisburn,  20911. 
Lismore.  250,  251. 
Lister,  Joseph  (Lord),  S,  195, 

uSU,  =.,, 

Literary  Year  Book.  39. 
literature,  32-40,  fco-S8,  91, 
95-95,  105-m.   113,  152, 

:  .190-195, 2?7- 

Liverpool,  53,  765,  196,  212. 

Livingstone;  Patrick,  150. 

Lixnaw,  223. 

Lfandafi,  roo. 

Llandilo,  toi. 

Llandovey,  ior. 

Llanwthin,  199. 

Lloyd  of  Wales,  ro'i. 

Lloyd,  Edward,  270. 

Lock,  Nicholas;  i  >i.  T62, 
164,  165,  167,  \fAx  176, 
213,  232,  234=  236,  238. 


! 


INDEX. 


305 


Lodge,  Robert,  147,  158,  159. 

Loe,  Thomas,  158. 

Logan,  James,  35,  124. 

London,  Plague  of,  15,  17. 

Long  Island,  121,  12S,  227. 

Long,  Katherine,  aft.  Peck- 
over,  26611. 

longevity,  109. 

Longmire,  William,  22S. 

Longworth,  Roger,  159,  160. 

Loudon,  John,  176. 

Lounsbury,  T.  R.,  Pronouns, 
109. 

Loveii,  John  Hill,  9S. 
Loveil,  Sarah,  form.  Frank, 
9Sn. 

Lower,  Thomas,  42,  142- 
145. 

Lucas  Andrew,  262. 
Lucas;  tftnr.  Verfali,  39, 
Lucas,  Mary,  aft.  FcnneLi, 
262. 

Lucas,  Samuel,  209. 
Luckock,  Joan,  aft.  Darbv, 

79  ill. 
Luddingtoa,  134. 
Ludlow,  102. 

Lumb,  Reginald,  134,  135. 
Lund,  Hester,  159. 
Lurgan,~2i5,  220. 
Lynch,  Marcus,  158. 


Macaulay,  Lord,  9,  11,  113, 

198,  200. 
Mackie,  Fredk.  and  Rachel, 

38- 

Macromp,  225. 
Madeiey,  S2n,  87,  n. 
Madin,  Philip,  131. 
Malins,  Robert,  158. 
Mallett,  Sir  Thomas,  141. 
Mallow,  1C7,  170,  179,  217, 

224,   225,'  236,   239,  251, 

254- 

Man  of  Honour.  168. 
Man,  Isle  of,  166,  172. 
Man   (Maw),  L  indie}',  135, 
136. 

Manchester,  35,  154a,  196, 

244,  25G. 
Manley,  27,  133. 
Manners,  M.  E.,~  KinMy  Critic, 

107. 

Mansfield.  25,  61-64. 
Manton,  137. 
Margrave,  Elizabeth*  134 • 
Mark  of  Cumberland,  127. 
Market  Weighton,  721. 
Markham,  Rev.  George,  5m. 
Markham,  Thomas,  ior. 
Marks,  Nathaniel,  42. 
Marlborough,  10 206. 
MarniiuH,  132. 
marriage,  19,  29,  104,  135, 
137,  147,  206,  266, 269, 270. 
Marriot,  Elizabeth,  248. 
Marsh*  John,  43. 
Marsh,  Roth,  aft.  Mead,  43. 
Marshall,  William,  135. 
Martell,  19a. 

Martha  ar.'d  Mary,  Storv  of, 
275. 

Martin,  James,  118,  121. 
Martin,  Maryi,  form.  Hay- 
wood, 22-. 
m.-jrtyis,  30,  117. 


J    Maryland,  25,  30.  121,  122, 

124.  143,  198,  226. 
Mason,  George,  120, 130,  259. 
Mason,  Thomas,  38. 
Massey,  William,  1x3. 
Matern  of  Silesia,  114,  149- 

152. 

Matern,  John,  149-152. 
I    Matern,  Rosina,  aft.  Bring- 
|       hurst,  151,  i?2.  ' 
j    Maude  of   Sunderland,  79, 
1  90. 

I  Maw  (Man;,  Henry,  135,  136. 
1    Mem,   Ruih,  form.  Marsh, 

j    Mead,  Dr.  Richard,  43. 
I    Meakins  of  London,  16. 
I    Meakins,  John,  16. 
I    Meakins.  Margaret,  15-17. 

M;-dc"'Je,  Nicholas,  134,  135. 
I    Meeting  Records,  59, 1S1-185. 

meetings,  sleeping  in,  46,  n. 

Melksham,    5611,   89,  15+n, 
204,  210,  211  ill. 

Me!!,  Dorcas,  134. 

Meii.  Edward,  134. 

Metier,  L-vdia,  aft.  Shackle- 
ten,  154*. 

Mellor,    Matthew,  244,  256. 

membership,  3,  70-78. 

membership,  birthright,  70. 

Merritt,  Thomas,  2jo. 

Message    and    Mission-  of 
Quakerism,  til. 

Midd'eton,  Boswell,  20,  85. 

Middleton,    Isabella,  form. 
Gill,  248,  259. 

Middleton,  Jane,  form.  Molle- 
son,  104. 

Middleton,  John,  104. 

Middleton,  Joshua,  104. 

Middletown   (Ireland),  167, 
225,  236. 
i    MierS;  Elizabeth,  118. 

Mildenhah,  4r. 

Miller  of  Edinburgh,  r,  8,  47. 

Miller,  Katherine',  224. 

Minehead,  166,  16S,  171,  257. 

ministers  die  on  service,  116- 
123,  125,  I54n,  271., 
j    ministry,  206. 
I    ministry,  hireling,  91,  253. 
!    Minshail,   Margaret  (Mary), 
j       form.  Barrow,  17-5. 

Minshail,  Rebecca,  235,  236. 

Mitchell,  Mary,  160. 
!    Moate,  134,  226. 

MoHesOH,  Gilbert,  104. 
I    Mollescm,  Jane.  aft.  Middleton, 
1  104. 

:    Momneux,  Mary,  95. 
j    Mompesson,   Rev.  William, 
17. 

!    Monk,  General,  3. 

!   Monks  (Wilts),  26n,  204. 

I    Monmouth,  86,  98. 

I    Montgomery,  James,  51-55. 

]    Moon,  John,  158. 

j     teotibi  Paul,  162. 

j    Moore,   LWanor,  221. 

Modre,  Joseph,  272,  273. 
I    Moore,  Robert,  63. 
I    Moore,    Surah,    ujt.  Had- 

wen,  ras. 
I    Moore,  Thomas,  J.  P.,  23, 

143,  145- 
I    Morgab,  Elizabeth,  245. 


Morisonian?,  4,  n. 
Morley  (Cheshire),  1540. 
Morpeth,  S6. 

Morris,  C,  Hist,  of  Phila- 
delphia, 106. 

Morris,  Dorothy,  230. 

Morris,  Fcrtuuatus,  160. 

Morris,  Lewis,  26. 

Morris,  Mary,  26. 

Morri?,  Susanna,  227,  229, 
245. 

Morris,  William,  157,  158, 
160. 

Mosgrove  of  Edinburgh,  7. 
Mosgrovc,  Ann.  form.  J  lly,  1. 
Mosgrove,  John,  1. 
Moss,  C.  F.  A.,  Pioneer  in 

Madagascar,  292, 
Motley,  Thomas,  116. 
Mott,  Lucretia,  35. 
Mounsey,  Thomas,  25. 
Mountmeilick,  172,  215,  221, 

231,  239,  250. 
Mountrath,  230,  244,  2^7. 
Much  Wenlock,  91. 
Murray,  Liudley,  200. 
Muschamp,  R.,  Bolton,  109. 
Musgrave,  Thomas,  11S,  122, 

ior,  162,  165. 
music,  49. 

mysticism,  no,  191-1^3. 

Nantucket,   125-127,  227. 
Narragansett,  227. 
Nash,  George,  211  ill. 
Nassawaddox,  30. 
Nayler  of  Yorkshire,  24. 
Nayler,  Ann,  21-24. 
Nayler,  James,  11, 18-24, 185, 
293- 

Nayler,  John,  23. 
Nayler,  William,  23. 
Neale,  Mary,  form'.  Pc-isley, 

Neale,  Samuel,  120,  131,  2 53, 
260. 

Neale,  Thomas  and  Martha, 
131- 

Neas,  John,  165. 

Neat  by,  W.  Biair,  40. 

Neate, — .prizefighter.  103. 

Neath,  59,  84,  100. 

Negroes,  36,  273. 

Neild,    Lydia,   form.  Har- 

gr eaves,  57m 
Neiid,  Ralph,  57m 
Nelson   (El%dn),  Frusannah, 

aft.  Harrison,  77. 
Nether  Cbmpton,  12S. 
Nevet,  Susannah,  42. 

New  Castle  (Del.),  25. 
New  England,  121,  240,  242. 
New  Garden,  108. 
New  Garden  (Pa.),  108,  242. 
New  Jersey,  125,  226. 
New  York,  42,  120,  t2i,  227, 
273- 

Ncwtali,  Godfrey-  164. 

Newcastle,  2,  85,  9%  104,  1 12. 

Newcastle  (Ireland),  225. 

Newenham,  Ricbara,  239. 

Newenham]    Sarah,  form. 
Devonshire,  239. 
I    Newenham,      Sarah,  aft. 
j       Dennis,  234. 
1    Newgate,  285. 


3o6 


INDEX. 


Newhili  Hall,  55,  n. 
New-land,  George^  171. 
Newman,  Sir  George,  39,  40. 
Newman,  Henry  S.,  39. 
Newport  (Mon.),  99. 
Nicholas,  Sir  Edward,  140. 
Nicho'as,  Robert,  2S. 
Nicholson  of  Cumberland,  2, 
6,  7- 

Nicholson,  John.  215. 
Nightingale,  Edward,  1S9. 
Nixon,  Mary,  r.20. 
Nobel  Institute.  40. 
Norfolk,  59,95,  119,  120,  129, 

196,  211  ill,  215,  216,  226, 

247,  -57,  259. 
Norman  ton,  121. 
North  Carolina,  108,  124,  191, 

North  Tohn  2S'S- 
North  Wales,  Pa.,  27411. 
Northall,  Joshua,  162,  163, 

170, 171,  173,  176,  215,  222. 
Northamptonshire,  12S,  232, 

247,  24S.  252. 
Northumberland,  130,  166, 

232,  2S7. 
Northwest  Territory,  108. 
Norton,  Elizabeth,  27. 
Norton,  Katherine,  159. 
Norton,  Thomas,  27. 
Norwich,  15.  56,  120,  130, 

139,  n,  218,  261. 
Nottingham,   5m,   63,  120, 

123,  126.  131,  245,  24S, 

259,  287. 
Nottingham,  Mary,  12S. 
Nottingham.    Samuel,  119, 

128,  246,  249,  254. 
Nottinghamshire,  2^-5. 
Nova  Scotia,  41,  272-274. 
Nurse,  Dr.  21,  22. 

Oades,  Lydia,  11 3,  121. 
oaths,  31,  143,  197,  284,  286. 
Obee  family,  42. 
Ohio,  10S. 
Oklahoma,  10S. 
Oliver  of  Lines.,  28,  29. 
Oliver  of  Wales,  199. 
Oliive,  Eeujamin,  16. 
Oliive,    Elizabeth,  form. 

Meakins,  16. 
Oliive,  Margaret,  217. 
Opie,  John  and  Amelia,  42. 
Ord,  Ann,  22 r. 
Ormston,  Chai  les,  196. 
Ostell,  Jonathan,  169. 
Oxford,  60,  89. 
Oxfordshire,  1:9,  123,  184, 

287. 

Oxley,  Ann,  form.  Peckover, 
130- 

Oxley,  Elizabeth,  form.  Feun, 
130- 

JOxley,  John,  119,  125. 
Oxley;  John  and  Ann,  130. 
Oxley,  Joseph,  120,  130,  261. 
Oxioy,  Stephen,  23. 
Oyle  of  Lines.,  28,  29. 

Pace,  Mary,  aft.  Weston  and 

Waring,  129. 
Padley,  Benjamina,  215. 
Padiey.  John,  204. 
Pain  see  Payne. 
Paine,  Margaret,  119,  126. 


Palmer,  David,  163,  172. 
Palmer,  Esther,  26,  31,  124. 
Papists.  175. 
Park,  James,  1.-9. 
Parke.  Mary,  95. 
Parker,  Alexander,  143,  144. 
Parking,  Hannah,  aft,  Dixon, 
129. 

Panic!!,  Richard,  135,  136. 
Parr  Town,  272. 
Parvin,  Benjamin,  226. 
Pask,  Mary,  aft.  Jay,  167, 
170. 

Patching,  Alice,  16S. 
Patersou,    Alexander,  150, 
151. 

Pattison,  George,  txS. 
Patuxcnt,  26,  30. 
Pawky,  Widow.  42. 
Paxson  of  America,  igr. 
Pax  sun,  Frederic  L.,  40. 
Payne  of  Yorks,  3511,  187,  297. 
Payton,      Catherine,  aft. 

Phillips,  119, 129,  251,  253. 
Payton,    Henry,    118,  121, 

122,  163,  27011. 
Payton,  Sarah,  aft.  Clarke 

and  Baker,  121. 
peace,  40,  86,  109,  190,  274, 

277. 

Peace  Pioneering,  109. 
Peacock,  Bevil,  S. 
Peacock,  John,  21S. 
Peacock.  Samuel,  215. 
Pearce,  Joseph,  292. 
Pearce,  Sarah,  235. 
Pearson,  Mary,  163. 
Pearson,  Samuel,  227. 
Pease,  Sir  Alfred  E.,  39- 
Pease,  Edward,  55. 
Pease,  Elizabeth,  aft.  Fennell, 

217,  223,  230, 235, 240, 241, 

243,  247. 
Pease,  Joseph  A.,  39. 
Pease,  John,  55. 
Peckover  of  Wisbech,  264, 

266. 

Peckover,  Ann,  aft.  Oxlev, 
130. 

Peckover,  Edmund,  119,  12S, 
130,  203,  216,  226,  257,  261. 

pedigrees,  77,  79.  152,  276. 

Peel,  The,  1S0. 

Peet,  H.  W.,  Menace  of 
Sundry.  293. 

Peisley,  Mary,  aft.  Neale, 
119,  129,  131,  246.  251. 

Pember  t  on    f  ami  1  y ,     1 5  4  n , 

PembertonL  John,  154,  n,  235. 

Penge-lv,  Ann,  219. 

Penington,  125. 
1    Penington,  Edward,  151. 
j    Penington,  Isaac,  10S,  151. 

Penington,  Mary.  95,  151. 

Penington.  William,  151. 
j    Penkcih,  8r,  203. 

Perm,  Thomas,  39. 

Penn,  William,  ir,  35,  ri8, 
142-8,  158,  167.  265. 

Penn,  William,  writings,  20, 
Cs,  132,  145,  184,  188,  268, 
274,  275- 

Penneil,  Mary,  231,  232. 

Penney,  George,  JiSh,  :8:>n. 

Penney,  Norz.oan,  39,  40, 
1      us  195. 


Pennev,  Sarah,  fort  ;.  Home, 
7Sn. 

Pennsylvania,  36,  39,  85,  90, 
10S,  12.V125,  :2C>,  127,  13T, 
151,  171,  177,  190.  igi, 
212-260  passim,  275n. 

Penrith,  2,  125.  12S. 

Penrose,  Elizabeth,  form. 
Beale,  23S. 

Penrose,  Francis,  23S. 

Perris,  H.  S.,  Pax,  190. 

Perrott,  John,  290. 

Perry  family,  16. 

Pettiuger,  James,  135.  136. 

Pettinger,  Jarmet,  135. 

Philadelphia,  60,  11S,  120, 
122,   125,    130',   131,  152, 

190,  223,  227,  234,  243,  2SS- 

Philadelphia  Discipline,  60. 

Philadelphia  Packet,  ship,  130. 

Phillips,  Catherine,  form.  Pay- 
ton,  129. 

Phiilips,  Gravei,  113. 

Phillips,  James,'  156. 

Phillips,  Margaret,  275. 

Phillips,  Richard,  82,  n. 

Phillips,   Thomas,  13.1. 

Phipps,  Joseph,  138. 

Phipps,  Joseph  and  Eliza- 
beth, 139. 

Phipps,  Sarah  j  forttt.  Kendal;, 
139. 

Pickas   (Pickover),  Robert, 

I34; 135- 
Pickering,  Widow,  295. 
Pickering,  William,  219. 
Pickwick,  89,  203-21 1. 
Piggott,  William,  119,  126. 
Pike,  Ann,  aft.  Strangman, 

226. 

!    Pike,  Ann,  a/*.  Taverr-er,  236. 
Pike,  Ebenezer,  223. 
Pike,  Richard.  229,  236,  239. 
Pillar,    James,  227. 
Pim,  Elizabeth,  226.  229. 
Pirn,  James,  222,  257. 
Pim,  John,  248,  250. 
Pim,  Jonathan,  297- 
Pim,  Moses,  179- 
Pim,  Tobias,  169. 
Pine,  Hannah,  245. 
Pitts.  Mary,  163. 
Pixley,  Christian,  form.  Alsop, 
275. 

Pixley,  Dorothy,  form  Twigg, 
275- 

Pixley,  John,  275. 
j    Pixley,  Walter,  275. 
j  plain  language,  T09. 

Plymouth,  a88. 

Plymouth  (Mass.),  2?. 

poetry,  5,  5111,  131,  155,  18-;. 
J    Poland,  149,  262. 

Pole,  Ann,  aft.  Young,  4T. 

Pollard,  Mrs.  22. 

Pollington,  277- 

Poison  of  Dublin,  6. 

Pontefract,  131. 
I   Peatypool,  90,  262. 
J    Poole,  $7,  78U. 

Popple,  Wiliiarn,  29,  iF>n. 
1    Potomac,  26,  106. 
j    Potts,  Thomas,  i>i, 
j    Poulter  family,  ifn 
j    Poultney  of  Maryland,  19S. 

Prachin,  Barbara,  114,  i^i, 
I  152. 


INDEX. 


307 


Prachin,  Hiilarius,  152. 
Presbyterians,  4".  79.  92- 
"  presentations,"  19,  27,  133. 
Preston,  7,  27cm. 
Preston  Patrick,  Si,  130. 
Prinald,  William,  199. 
prisons,  12,  21,  57,  1S9,  196, 
266. 

prize  fighting,  103. 
Prohain,    Christopher,  149, 

151,  152. 
prophecies,   131,   172,  17s, 

179,  212,  213,  220,  221, 

23-,  237,  241,  249,  252, 

25S. 

Proud,  Robert,  120,  130,  259. 
Pumphrey,  Frances,  64. 
Punchestoa,  192. 
Py'o,  100. 

Fyle,  Robert,  2^. 
Pyrxnont,  154,  n. 

Quaker  ancestry,  195. 
Quaker  Calendars,  35. 
Quakerism  Drooping,  41, 
Quakers  Tavern,  14. 
Quare,  Daniel,  34,  43. 

Raby,  8r,  129. 
Radnor, -130,  140. 
Ra  gland,  9S. 

Rail,  Katberine,  179,  221. 
railways,  297. 
Raliett,  John,  159. 
Randal,  Samuel,  175. 
Ransome,  John  and  Mary, 
129. 

Ransome,  Mary,  aft.  Kirby, 

120,  129,  245,  247. 
Ransome,  Richard,  215. 
Ratdiff,  122,  190. 
Rathangan,  131. 
Rathbone,  Joseph,  79  ill,  155. 
Rathbone,      Mary,'  form. 

Darby,  79  ill.,  155. 
Rathbone,  William,  83n. 
Rathkeale,  225. 
Ravenstonedale,  127. 
Rawlins,  Frank  P.,  198. 
Rawlins,  H.,  Hopper,  38. 
Rawlins,  Richard  C,  19S. 
Rawlinsou,  Abraham,  126. 
Rawlinson,  Elizabeth,  form. 

Beck,,  119,  125,  126,  167, 

2x3. 

Rayn,  Sarah,  i65. 
Read,  Elizabeth,  s2,  n. 
Reading,  2S5,  295. 
Reav,  Edmond,  239. 
Rebanks,  Elizabeth,  257. 
Rebanks,  Thomas,  183. 
Reckitt,  William,  120,  129, 
257. 

Reckless,  John,  63. 
Reckless,  Jonathan,  63. 
Red  Man,  The,  109. 
Reeves,  John,  Recollections, 
iyo. 

Refer  nc;  Library,  32,  39, 

19m.  270. 
Reynolds  of  Wales,  199, 
Reynolds.  Florence  P.,  105. 
Reynolds,  George,  199- 
Reynolds,    Hannah,  form. 

Darby,  79  %  84,  S3. 
Reynolds,  Richard,  5111,  79  ill, 

84,  155,  2ZO,  25S. 

Vol.  130. 


Rh>de  Island,  121,  227. 

Richards,  John,  199. 

Richardson,  Andrew,  7. 

Richardson,  Anna  D.,  11,  n. 

Richardson,  Christian,  7.  . 

Richardson,  Edward,  2. 

Richardsan,  George,  ri2. 

Richardson,     Jane,  form. 
Wigham,  2. 

Richardson,  Jane,  aft.  Wig- 
ham,  2. 

Richardson,  John,  7. 

Richards  .n,  John,  118,  119, 
124,  *63,  222. 

Richardson,  John  Wigham, 
1  i, 

Richardson,   John  Wigham, 

50,  1S7,  200. 
Richardson,  Joseph,  174,  216. 
Richardson,     Mary,  form. 

Simpson,  22S. 
Richardson,  Robert,  245. 
Riqhardson  MSS.,  112. 
Richmond  (Yorks),  127. 
Rickaby,  Mary,  245. 
Ridgway,  Joshua,  132,  256. 
Ridgway,      Mary,  form. 

Sparkes,  120,  132, 154, 155, 

256,  280. 
Rigby,  Daniel,  167,  214. 
Rigg,  Thomas,  220. 
Rigge,  Alice,  116. 
Rigge,  Ambrose,   285,  288, 

296. 

Rimington  of  Penrith,  2,  5. 

Roberts,  Ann,  231. 

Robertson,  Robert,  160,  162, 
171,  175,  214. 

Robertson,  Thomas,  147. 

Robinson,  Alexander,  19. 
I    Robinson,  Ann,  n3,  121. 

Robinson,   Elizabeth,  form. 
J       Hoyle,  aft.  Gibson,  120, 
131. 

Robinson,    Hannah,  form. 

Storer,  fin. 
Robinson,  Isabel,  aft.  Gill, 

127. 

Robinson,  Joseph,  5m. 
Robinson,  Joshua,  131. 
Robinson,  Mary,  164. 
Robi-'.son  Memorials,  5m. 
Robinson,     Rebecca,  aft. 

Shorthouv:-,  51,  n. 
Robinson,  Sarah,  aft.  Smith, 

51-58. 

Robinson,  William,  30,  117. 
Robinson,  William,  133. 
Rodes  of  Bariborough,  197. 
Rogers,  Francis,  159,  160. 
Rogers,  Joseph,  123. 
Rogers,  Mary,  form.  Wheeler, 

39,  118,  122,  123. 
Rogers,  William,  1S3. 
Ronayne's  Court,  173,  175, 

179- 

Rooke,  George,  15  %n,  160- 
1G3,    1C5,    I'm,  168-170, 
I       213,  219. 
I    Roper,  John,  23. 

Rose,  Daniel,  90,  155,  261. 

Ross,  98. 
j    Ross  (Ireland),  15S,  222,  225, 
j       236,  250,  262. 
1    Rr^.-,,  Alexander,  108. 

Rat^erfield,  388. 
!    Rous,  John,  118. 


Rous,  Margaret,  151. 
Rauth,  Dr.'  M.  J.,  1G4,  19S. 
Rowlandsan,  James,  130. 
Rowlands  >n,  Jane,  245. 
Rowlandson,  Jane,  aft.  Cros- 

field,  130,  260. 
Rowritrce,  B.  S.,  HolZ'  Labourer 

Lives,  293. 
Rowntree,  J.,  Social  Service, 

132,  193,  195. 
Rowntree,  Joseph,  39. 
Royce,  Dr.,  Fox  as  Mystic, 

192. 

Rudd,  Thomas,  1G1,  170. 
Ruddle,  Robert,  43. 
Rudyard,  Thomas.  145. 
Russell,  Sir  Francis,  145. 
Russell,  Gregory,  215. 
Russell,  John,  224. 
Russia,  64. 

Rutter,  Rachel,  163,  167. 
Rutty,  Hester,  aft.  Bennet, 
210. 

Rutty,  Dr.  John,  2x0. 
Rutty,  Samuel,  210. 

sacraments,  284. 

Saffron  Walden,  124,  126. 

Salem  (N.J.),  88,  261. 

Salisbury,  2S8. 

Salkeld,  John,  118.  124,  165, 

166.  168,  213,  214. 
Salkeld,  Thomas,  124. 
Salter  forth,  126. 
Samra,  Mary,  194. 
Sampson,  Richard,  136,  137. 
Sands,  Colonel,  145. 
Sandwith,  Mary,  form.  Gill, 

24S. 

Sandy  Hutton,  85. 
Sankey,  S9,  130,  172,  203. 
Sausom,  Oliver,  159,  161. 
Satterthwaite,  Margaret,  aft. 

Hoare,  17S,  213." 
Saul,  David,  261. 
Saul,  Martha,  246. 
Saul,  Rachel,  246. 
Saunders,  Jolm,  161. 
Saunders,  Susannah,  215. 
Savoy,  138. 
Scarborough,  130. 
Scarborough  of  America,  iqi. 
Scarburgh,    Col.  Edmund, 
3m. 

Scattergood,  Thomas,  131. 

Scot,  Captain,  91. 

Scotland,  1-11,  45-50,  104, 
115,  122,  124,  125,  129, 
163,  167,  179,  192,  218, 
238,  254,  256. 

Scott,  John,  23. 

Scott,  John,  228. 

Scott,  Mary,  221. 

Scott,  Robert,  232. 

Scott,  Sir  Waiter,  195. 

Scrooby,  285. 

Scaly,  Richard,  16G-171, 
174, 213, 218, 210, 222-224, 
226. 

Searsoh,  Edward,  159. 
Seaton,  Alexander,  r6o,  172, 
Seaton,  John,  63. 
Seaton,  Richard,  134,  135. 
Sedbargb,  b9n,  12s,  127. 
Sedgwick  see  LcdgWick. 
Stilbie,  W.   B.,  Nonconfor- 
mity, 36. 


308 


INDEX. 


Serjeant,  Mnry,  aft.  Darby, 
79  i". 

sermons,  17,  126,  174,  210, 
214,  217,  229,  230,  243, 
244,  247-2516,  271. 

"  sesis,"  296. 

Settle,  124,  125. 

Sexton,  W.  J.,  Opfitt  Sore,  34. 

Shackleton,  Abraham,  153. 

Shackleton,  Elizabeth,  form. 
Carleion,  1-54,  n. 

Shackleton,  Lydia,  form. 
Mellor,  154,  n. 

Shackleton,  Mary,  aft.  Lead- 
better,  153,  n. 

Shackleton,  Richard,  153, 
2S0. 

Shackleton,  Sarah,  154. 
Sharp,  Anthony,  161 ,  163, 

Sharp,  Isaac,  on  Studien,  36. 
Sharpe,  Elizabeth,  2<S,  7.9. 
Sharpe,  Robert,  28,  29. 
Sharpless,  Isaac.  245. 
Shauckster,  Anthony,  28. 
Shauckster,  William,  28. 
Shaw,  John,  227. 
Shaw,  Jonas,  165,  175,  178, 

2 1  ■5^220. 
Sheere,  2SS. 

Sheffield,  i;n,  51-58,  85,  120, 

131,  132. 
Shetboume   (Nova  Scotia), 

273- 

Sheldon,  Eleazar,  119,  12S, 
216,  232,  241,  245,  252. 

Sheldon,  Samuel,  223,  243, 
256. 

Shelley,  Alexander,  219. 
Sheningtos,  129. 
Shepherd,  John,  42. 
Sheppard,  Elizabeth,  246. 
Sheriff  Hales,  8911. 
Shipley,  Elizabeth,  245. 
Shoreditch,  151. 
Shoreham,  288. 
Shorthouse  Memorials,  5m, 
Shorthouse,   Rebecca,  form. 

Robinson,  51,  n. 
Shorthouse,  William,  5m. 
Shrewsbury,    84n,    87,  91, 

102,  I20,  132,  153,  295. 
Shutford,  129. 
Side,  125. 
sign,  117. 

silence  in  worship,  137,  251, 
257,  2C1,  262. 

Silesia,  114,  149. 

Simcock,  John,  159. 

Simmonds,  Martha,  93. 

Simmons,  Thomas,  177. 

Simp!<ins,  Elizabeth,  232,  245. 

Simpson,  Mary,  23. 

Simpson,  Mary,  166. 

Simpson,  Mary,  aft.  Richard- 
son,' 228. 

Simpson,  William,  118. 

Sims  family,  16. 

Sims,  John,  15. 

Sims,  Ollive,  139. 

Sinclair,  Abiah,  form.  Maude, 
aft.  Darby,  79  ill. 

Sinclair,  John,  3. 

Sinclair,  John,,  79,  79  ill. 

Sinclair,  Robert,  220,  227, 
.  237. 

singing,  148,  150. 


Skibbereen,  161-17S  passim, 

214-250  passim. 
Skidmore,  Joseph,  168. 
Skinner,  Deborah,  245. 
Skipsea,  124. 
Skipton,  128,  287. 
Skyrin,  Grace,  232. 
Slater,  Mary,  228. 
Slater,  William,  234. 
slavery,  11,  36,  38,  108,  128. 
Sleeford,  41.* 
Smeal,  W.  G.,  Scott,  195. 
Smeal,  William  and  Robert, 

2. 

Smeaton,  131. 
Smiley,  Albert  K.,  109. 
Smith  of  Kidsley,  185. 
Smith,  C.  Fell,  39. 
Smith,  Edward,  5m,  52m 
Smith,  Elizabeth,  158. 
Smith,  Elizabeth,  245. 
Smith,  Hannah  W.,  195. 
Smith,  James,  12m 
Smith,  John,  30. 
Smith,  J.,  Catalogue,  93, 113. 
Smith,  Mary,  15,  n. 
Smith,  Mary,  29. 
Smith,  Mary,  135,  136. 
Smith,  Mary,  242. 
1    Smith,  Nathaniel,  159. 
Smith,  Samuel,  51. 
Smith,  Sarah,  form.  Robinson, 
5I-58- 

Smith,  Sarah  J.,  12,  n. 
Smith  S.,  Friends  in  Penna, 

25- 

Smith.  Thomas,  15m 
Smith,  William,  51m 
Smithies,  Grace,  223. 
Smyth,  William,  28. 
Snead,  Richard,  182. 
Snowden,      Rebecca,      aft,  j 

Stephenson,  130. 
Social  Service,  103.  • 
soldiers  convinced,   3,  12S, 

15S,  160,  243, 256. 
Somerset,    99,     100,     171,  j 

260. 

South  Caxolina,  10S,  126. 
Soul-hall,  Margaret,  aft.  Evans, 

52n, 57n. 
Southall,  Sarah,  51m 
Southey,  Robert,  97. 
Sonthwark,  123. 
Sowie,  Jane,  114. 
Spain,  130. 
Spaine,  Ann,  135. 
Spaine,  William,  131,  135. 
Sparkes,  Anstis,  155. 
Sparkes,  Joseph  and  Mary, 

132. 

Sparkes,  Mary,  aft.  Ridgway, 

132,  256,  257. 
Spavold,  Samuel,  120,  129, 

253,  259,  261. 
SpUalfi-.lds,  Recollection'  of, 

Splatt,  Ann,  228. 

Splatt,  Sarah,  132,  256,  257.  i 

SpoonfeSr,  John,  18. 

Spring,  ,  prizefighter,  103.  ' 

Spurge.- 11,  C.  F.  E.,  Mysticism,  j 

191.  : 

Spurr,  Hannah,  aft.  Kiiham, 

52,  n.  I 

Stamper,  Elizabeth,  2^9.  j 

Stanley,  Rev.  Thomas,  17.  1 


Stansfield,  Charles  E.,  io<. 
106. 

Stanton,  Daniel,  248. 
Starbuck,  Edwin,  D.,  40. 
Starkey,  Eleanor,  1G0. 
Steer,  Elizabeth,  164. 
Stenton,  35. 

Stephens,  John,  102,  1C4. 
Stephens,  John,  179. 
Stephens,  Samuel,  119,  127, 
22S. 

Stephens,  Sarah,  163. 
Stephens,  Thomas,  165,  170. 
Stephenson,  Daniel,  154m 
Stephenson,  John,  120,  130, 

259- 

Stevenson.  Marmadukc.  117, 
121. 

Stephenson,     Ralph,  176, 

179,  215,  226. 
Stephenson,  Rebecca,  form. 

Snowdon,  130. 
Stephenson,   "Samuel,  234, 

235. 

Stephenson,  Sarah,  form. 
Storrs,  154m 

Stephenson,  Sarah, 154,  n. 

Stevenson  of  Kendal,  2700. 

Stevensou,  Hannah,  270,  n. 

Stiriedge,  Elizabeth,  Qi. 

Stockdale,  William,  160. 

Stockport,  ion,  139. 

Stockton-on-Tees,  130, 

Stoddart,  Amor,  192. 

Stoddart,  John.  166,  177. 

Storer,  Hannah,  aft.  Robin- 
son, 51m 

Storer,  John,  120,  129,  259. 

Storrs,  Katherine,  2.19. 

Storrs,  Sarah,  aft.  Stephen- 
son, 154m 

Story,  Bridget,  168. 

Story,  Christopher,  123,  167. 

Story,  John,  143,  14.6. 

Story,  Thomas,  26,  118,  123. 
124,  165,  216. 

Stott,  Samuel,  257. 

Stout,  William,  19& 

Stowe,  Jennet,  166. 

Strangeman,  Ann,  form. 
Pike,  226. 

Strangman,  Joshua,  22G. 

Stratford  on*  A  von,  90. 

Street,  M.  J.,  Seed  of  King- 
dom, 108. 

St  ret  tell,  Abel,  175. 

Stroude,  Counsellor,  145. 

Strutt,  James,  16. 

Strutt,  Mary,  form.  Meakens, 
16. 

Stuart,  lane,  2G3-268. 
Stubbs,  John,  xi8,  13& 
Stubbs,  Mary,  169. 
Suffolk,  69,  i€o,  iby,  220, 

245,  287. 
Sumnierland,     Ann,  form. 

V\  atcrhouse,  80.  02,  155, 

196,  262. 
Suiunierland,  John,  8on. 
Sunderland,  79.  fci,  122. 
Sutton,  Ann,  2S. 
Sutton  Benger,  1540* 
Sutton,  Jennet,  178. 
Sutton,  Margaret,  158. 
Sutton,  Michael,  28. 
Sutton,  R<;bCi  i,  133. 
Sutton,  Wilson,  nt;. 


INDEX. 


Swain,  Joseph,  279. 
Swansea,  59,  82,  100,  125, 

22S,  270T 

Swarthmoor,  41 , 43, 110, 148, 

I54n,  192,  287. 
Swarthmoor  Account  Book, 

Swarthmore  College,  96,  279, 

Swarthmore  Lecture,  193. 
Swartbmore  Register,  114. 
Swindon,  William,  23. 
Sykeside,  125. 
Syme,  Dr.,  8. 
Syria,  39. 

Talgarth,  101. 

Tallow  iTai!agh),  167,  170, 
i"o.  219,  225,  236,  251. 

Tanner, "Margaret",  64. 
Tanner , 'Sarah,  form.  Wheeler, 
64. 

Tanner,  William,  65. 
Tarperley,  121. 
Tasker,  James,  no,  129. 
Tasker,  Mercy,  form.  Haw- 
kins, 129. 
Tasmania,  38. 

Taverner,  Ann,  form.  Pike,  236' 
Taverncr,  John,  236. 
TaweH,  T.  Edward,  191. 
Taylor,  Andrew,  161. 
Taylor,  Ami  and  Jane,  51,  n. 
Taylor,  Bayard,  iro. 
Taylor,  Christopher,  19,  149. 
Taylor,  Elizabeth,  27. 
Taylor,  Frances,  150. 
Taylor,  Frederic,  105. 
Taylor,  George,  19. 
Taylor,  Isaac,  51m 
Taylor,  James,  27. 
Taylor,  John,  1:7,  118,  121, 

159,  189. 
Taylor,   Joseph,    119,  126, 

237,  297. 
Taylor,    J.,    Miira  Mandli 

Satna-ckar  Pair  a,  292. 
Taylor,  William,  244. 
Teachers  and  Taught,  38,  105. 
Teagiic,  Pentecost,  171. 
Teddiiigton,  188. 
Test  and  Corporation  Act, 

196. 
Tha'xtcd,  131. 
Theaiby,  133,  134. 
Thomas  of  America,  191. 
Thomas.    A.     B.,  Foreign 

Missions,  irr. 
Thomas,  Hannah,  4. 
Thomas,  Louisa,  aft.  Cruick- 

shank,  4. 
Thomas,  Margaret,  199. 
Thomas,  Richard,  137. 
Thomas,  William,  249,  251. 
Thompson,  Abigail,  225. 
Thompson,  Elizabeth,  form. 

Tmimins,  200. 
Thompson,  Gilbert,  130,  172, 

Thompson,  John,  163. 


jn,  200. 


Thompson,  Jensh,  119,  128. 
Thompson,  La'w.v,  129. 
Thompson,  Peter,  216. 
'Ihompsen,  Silvanus  P.,  40i 


Thompson,    Thomas,  118, 

119,  124,  164. 
Thomson,  M.  H.,  Environ- 

metit,  106. 
Thomer,  287. 
Thornton,  Samuel,  159. 
Thornton,  Susanna,  222. 
Thresher,   Ann,    aft.  Sims, 

15,  n. 

Thurston,  Thomas,  30,  121. 
Tifhn,  John,  is8,  160. 
TiUotsr.T!,  Phcebe.  22S. 
Tilson,  Phebe,  176. 
Timmins,     Elizabeth,  aft. 

Thompson,  200. 
Timolcague,  236. 
Tipper?jry,    171,    174,  177, 

213-259  passim, 
tithes,  ^m,  91,  92,  115,  148, 

209*  ilk 
tobacco,  8,  13. 
Tockinsrton,  211  ilk 
Tcdd,  John,  1S9. 
Toft  of  Staffs,  207-209,  227. 
Tcmey,  Elizabeth,  235,  241, 

246,  249-251,  256. 
Tomey,  Tames,  256,  257,  260. 
Toroey,  Joseph,  247,  250. 
Tcmkins,   Mary,   11S,  121, 

159,  n. 

Tomkir.son,    Charlotte,  aft. 

Burgess,  58,  n. 
Tonninson  of  America,  191. 
Tom'inson,      Agnes,  aft. 

Haggar,  270,  n. 
Tcrtola,  123,  12S,  249,  254. 
Tottenham,  131. 
Townsend,  Elizabeth,  218. 
Townsend,  John,  120,  131, 

272. 

Townsend,  Dr.  John  S.,  117. 
Townsend,  Joseph,  117. 
Townsend,  Richard,  273. 
Townsend,  Timothy,  163. 
Townsend,  William,  106. 
Towse,  Timothy,  165. 
trades  and  professions,  129, 
161-177,  21s,  240, 248, 279- 
Trafford,  Rebecca,  1C7,  170. 
Trafford,  Thomas,  161-164. 
Tralee,  2.-5- 

Travers,  Rebecca,  93,  94. 
Trayson,  James,  133. 
Trecastle,  101. 
Trefeglys,  100. 
Tregos,  Jasper,  163. 
Trevecca.  92 n. 
Triiion  Family,  19-011. 
Truman,  Mary,  126,  179,  221. 
Trusted,  E.  E.,  Hor.net  and 

Tucker',  Rachel,  2t9. 
Tuekelt,  Francis  Ik,  64. 
Tuke,  Esther,  2S0. 
Turner,  C.  Lyon,  29r. 
rurnc-r,  Jane,  05. 
Turner,  Jolm,  220. 
Turm.-r,  Rebecca,  119,  125, 
126. 

Turner,  Robert,  164. 
Turner,  Thomas,   118,  143, 
1  GO. 

Twiford,  Samuel,  205. 
Twigg,  Dorothy,  aft.  Pixie?, 
27s. 

Twining  of  America,  191. 
Twisden,  Judge,  35. 


Tybach,  100. 
Tyddyn-y-Garcg,  275. 
Tylce  (Tylorj,  Edward,  1 

127,  231,  240. 
Tylor,  Jonathan,  n8,  1 

161. 

T3*soe,  John,  159. 

Ulverston,  41,  125. 
Underwood,     R.,  Livi 

Legacy,  194,  293. 
Union,  Elizabeth,  137. 
Union,  Ihomas,  137. 
Upshcr,  Thomas,  165. 
Urrie,  John,  135,  136. 
Urwin,  Ann,  form.  Wils 

172,  221. 
Urwin,  John,  1G9,  222,  2. 
Urv,  187. 
Usk,  99. 
Uttoxiler,  275. 

Vanbuylart,   Mariana,  1 
Vaughtnn,  John,  165. 
Vans,  George,  Jan.,  108. 
Vaux,  Roberts,  190. 
Vayera  (Ayrey),  Agnes,  1 
Venner,  Thomas,  2S7. 
Virginia,  25,  30,  icS,  * 

I2i, 123, 124,128, 159, 1 

169,  199,  21C,  227,  2 
Visitations.  Episcopal,  27- 

133-137. 
Voklns,  Joan,  form.  Bun 

118,  121.  161. 
Vokins,  Richard,  121. 

Wagstaffe,  Thomas,  34, 13S 

272n. 
Wainrlcet,  129. 
Waste,  Richard,  216,  2.ts. 
Wake,  Henry  T.,  109. 
Wakefield,  24. 
Wakefield,  Priscilla,  200. 
Waldenfield,  Samuel,  159, 1 C 
Wales,  3S,  59,  87,  co-jo 

125-127,  129, 147, 153,  XL 

179,  191,  ?99.  2=9.  231. 
Wales,  National  Library 

33.93- 

Waies,  South  Division,  M.: 

Wales  Y.M.,  S2,  r:,  84, 

91,  92,  270m 
Walker,  Ellen,  27. 
Walker,  Joseph,  1^9. 
Walker,  Marv,  42. 
Walker,  Robert,  27.  13*. 
Walker,  Robert,  120,  hi. 
Walker,  William,  42. 
VVailis,  Henry  M.,  39. 
Waltham  Abbey,  1 49-151! 
Waken  of  America,  191. 
Walton  (Suffolk),  114. 
W'andswortu,  113. 
Wandsworth,  M.&L,  59. 
Wappir:g,  r(3. 
W.'irlx.roukh,  t:rj. 
Warden,  Robert,  11S, 

101. 

Waring,  Mary,  form.  Pace  .. 

Weston,  i2y. 
Wa  r  mswort  h,  550,  105. 
Warner,  S.  A.,  writings,  to 
Warren,  Rachel,  aft.  I...  id< 

79  ffl. 
Warrington,  81,  245- 


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INDEX. 


Warwick,  245,  250,  2S5. 
Waterford,   127,   171,  177, 

175,  213-250  passim. 
Waterhotise,      Asm,  ail. 

Summer  land  So  n 
Waterhoase,  Jonas,  10,  n. 
Waterhvuse,     Joshua  and 

Rebecca,  Sou. 
Watson,      Abigail,  form. 

Craven,  and  i-'.owles,  126, 

235,  240,  242,  245-247. 
Watson,  Jane,  120,  132,  154, 

2S0. 

Watson,  John,  30. 
Watson,  John,  159,  160. 
Watson,  John,  161-171,  173. 
Watson,  John,  171-173. 
Watson,  Joseph,  222. 
Watson,  Richard,  159. 
Watsob  Samuel  ?o. 
Watson,  Samuei,  126,  1S0, 

233r  235,  240,  245,  257-' 
Watson,  V.ilham,  170,  171, 

176,  1S0. 

Wat  tarn,  John,  133. 
Watts  family,  41. 
Watts,  Robert,  245. 
Weaver,  Rebecca,  237. 
Webb,  Elizabeth,  11S,  122- 

Webb|  John,  123. 
Webb,  Richard,  123. 
Webb,  Thomas,  211  ill. 


Welbourne,  129. 
Welii:. ^borough,  128. 
Wellington  (Salop),  66,  02. 
Wellington  (Som*),  104,  '105, 
199- 

Welsh  Settlement  of  Penna., 
110. 

Weusleydale,  124,  i3t. 

W  ere,  Mary,  aft.  Fox,  200. 

Wesieyans,  91,  100,  246. 


West  Challow,  121. 
West  Deerham,  95. 
West  Indies,  121-123,  131, 
203. 

West,  J.  W.,  Figures,  37. 
Westhoughton,  109. 
Westmorland,  j.i3,  119,  120, 

126,  128,  130,  163,  1S3, 

214, 218, 220, 222, 230, 235, 

243,  261,  2S7. 
Weston,  Mary,  form.  Pace, 

aft.  Waring,  119.  129. 
Welhered,  John,  o5. 
Whalley,  Dr.,  197. 
Wbartnaby,  Elizabeth,  126, 

227. 

Wheeler  of  Russia,  64. 
Wheeler.  Dank:,  64. 
Wheeler,  John,  123. 
\\  heeler,  Mary,  aft.  Rogers, 
123- 

Wheeler,  Sarah,  aft.  Tanner, 
64. 

Whitby,  287. 

White,  Av.v.,  2C1,  362. 

White,  Durothv,  94. 


t    White,  Esther,  245. 

Whi:e,  Mary,  7- 

White,  William,  3. 

Whiteheld,  Ge  >rge,  130. 

Wane-haven,  2.  15411,  229. 
'    Whitehead,  Ann,  16. 
)    Whitehead,  George,  16,  42, 

!    Whiirow,  Joan,  94. 

Whittier,  John  C,  no. 
1    Whitton,  27. 

Whitton,  Daniel,  225,  227, 

j    Wief-cornocoes,  26. 
j    Widders,  Robert,  118. 
!    Widrington,  Sir  Thomas,  21. 
j    Wigan,  159- 

i    Wigham  oi  Edinburgh,  1,  2, 
i       6,  S,  9,  11,  47,  48,  200. 
!    Wigham,  J.  T.,  Our  Inheri- 
ts     tew*,  293. 

Wight,  Thomas,  160,  175. 
j    wigs,  229. 

I    Wilbur,  H.  W.,  Points,  35. 
!    Wilkinson,  Edward,  28. 
Wilkinson,    Elizabeth,  120, 
130. 

j    Wilkinson,  Nicholas,  28. 

Wilkinson,  Robert,  28. 
I    Wilkinson,  Samuel,  118,  124, 
{       160,  173,  220. 
I    "Wilkinson,    Thomas,  160, 

165,  212. 
j    Wilkinson  and  Story  Con- 
I       troversy,    143,    146,  1S2, 

183. 

!    \\  illiams,  Martha,  262. 

Williams,  Michael,  233. 

Williams,  Peter,  220. 
j    Williams,  Samuel,  260. 
j    Williams,  Sarah,  259. 
j    Williamson,  Dr.,  Watches,  34. 
i    wills,  2,  23,  41. 

Wilson,  Agnes,  ait.  Horton, 

89,  H. 

Wilson,  Anne,    afi.  Urwin, 

162,  165,  172. 
Wilson,    Christopher,  119, 

127,  128,  23-S,  245. 
Wilson,  Daniel,  48. 
Wilson,       Elizabeth,  aft. 

Hutchinson,  223,  225,  226, 

241. 

Wilson,  E.  J.,  Mo.ivn  Out- 
look, 203. 
I    Wilson,  George,  117. 
i    Wilson,  Isaac,  130. 
Wilson,  James,  116. 
Wilson,  James,  2T4. 
Wilson,  John,  12S. 
Wilson,  John  and  Debsrsh, 
130. 

Wiison,  Jonathan,  246. 
Wilson,  Rachel,  120,  130,  257. 

j    Wilson,  Rowland,  119,  126, 

Wilson,  Thomas,  i>8,  122, 
160,  rC2,  164,  166,  167, 
I  160,170,173,212,215,216. 


Wiison,  William,  273. 
Wilson,  William  and  Jane, 
89m 

Wiltshire,  89,  122,  1540,  16:, 
170,  1S2,  203-2:1,  233. 

Wily,  Thomas,  254. 

Winchester,  Va.,  128. 

Windermere,  19. 

Winsbury,  199. 
j    Winterbournc,  120. 

Winieringham,  28. 
I    Wisbech,  263-263. 

Wise,  J.  C,  Acco»iack,  25,  30. 
j   Witney,  123. 
I    women,  25,  93,  200. 
j    women's  meetings,  14S. 

Wood,  Lydia,  38. 
j    Wood,  Rebecca,  35. 
i    Woodoridge,  249. 
i    Woodbrooke,  106. 

Woodhal!,  127. 
j    Woodhouse  (Ireland),  126. 
j    Woodrow,  John,  229. 

Woolley,  John,  150. 

Wool  man,  John,  35,  200. 

Worcester,  83,  86,  n,  89,  119, 
142-145,  154,  163,  251. 

Wormall,  Henry,  51:1. 

Worrell,  Marv,  159,  r6o. 

Worrell,  Sarah,  25S,  271. 

Wotton  under  Edge,  98. 

Wresslc  of  Lines.,  2S,  29,  133. 
134. 

Wrisht,  James,  108. 
Wright,  R.  R.,  Negro,  36. 
Wyatt,  France?,  a/i.  Griffith, 
130. 

Wyatt,  Mary,  222,  232,  233, 
246. 

:    Wycombe,  156. 

j    Wyer,  Elizabeth,  form.  Good, 

!  137. 

i    Wyer,  Thomas,  137. 
Wyresdale,  2. 


Yarmouth,  59. 

Yatton,  128. 
1    Yealand,  127. 

Yeamans  of  Bristol,  23S. 

Yeats,  John,  226. 

York,  Ss,  116,  124,  125,  139, 
195,  227,  230,  277. 

York  Castle,  jiq,  93,  285. 

Yorkshire,  117-122,  125,  130, 
130,  161,  162,  164,  167, 
r63,  172,  174,  178,  179, 
213-259  passim,  287. 

YoughaU,  167,  1 69-171.  177, 
213-255  passim, 
j    Young,  Ann,  form.  Polo,  41, 

I  Young,  Christopher,  41. 

j  Young  Friends'  Association, 

I  293. 

I  \oung,  Jane,  132. 

I  Young,  John,  132,  153. 

i  Young,  Marv,  163. 

j  Young,  Rebecca,  aft.  Eyrd, 

i  120,  132,  153:1,  192. 


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